Very well done...don't believe the negative reviews

Rating: 9/10 (19 May 2006)

Loved the book. After reading some of these and local paper reviews, I almost passed on the movie, but went and saw it anyway. I don't understand all the negative feedback. Some of the acting was a bit dramatic and over the top, but so is the storyline. The score was beautiful,I didn't find it to be a distraction (as some have noted)at all. See it for yourself, I think they did a pretty good job translating this complex story without a narrator filling in the blanks. I don't know what people expected, but the script is pretty dead on with the book. Perhaps too much so with regard to the dialogue. Great story, well worth the price of admission.