Worth seeing, BUT..........

Rating: 7/10 (23 March 2012)

The book was engrossing. The film sticks reasonably close to the original. So - good book, good film. BUT....
The soundtrack is really, really, really annoying!
A movie is a careful combination of cinematography, editing, script, acting, sets and location, costumes, score, etc. Invariably when one of these sets out to "upstage" the rest, the entire production suffers. Too often in this film the background noise - sometime music, more often sound effects - overwhelms all other elements. Almost like a small child screaming "LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME!" I found myself wanting to shout at the screen "OK. I got it. Now go away."