Well done

Rating: 8/10 (19 May 2006)

If you are one of those people who never watch an adapted film because you think it will never be better than the novel it is based on, think twice. OK, again, the novel is better, but at least this time the result is good, and it is worth watching. First, it is good to see Tom Hanks in action, second, the director Ron Howard, did a good job.
The first minutes are incredibly fast, and it may confuse people who haven't read the book. The ones who know the novel, people like me for example, may have to think of the the original text sometimes, but it does not damage the movie as a whole.
As someone who has read the novel and seen the film, as well as a Christ believer and highly interested in history, I say we have to be always ready to learn and know fact that may (or may not) take us to the truth, no matter if sometimes we have to redo our own faith.