Quite a poor adaptation of the original book

Rating: 3/10 (22 February 2011)

I read the book and it wasn't that bad either. Sure it had quite some clichés and was very predictable...we could say Hollywood-ish, but was decent enough fun.
Seeing the movie i'm quite disappointed. It's not just that the plot is almost entirely different, many parts changed, a lot of them discarded. What is much worse than that, is that it has quite poor directing. Events just hope around with very little intermezzos, the story is poorly shown and it has even more clichés than the book. Many times it just gets annoying and confusing. The whole move feels extremely rushed forward.
The acting isn't bad, in my opinion it has lots of potential, but it's just a shame how badly executed it was.
I'm really disappointed by this movie, it had potential to be a decent piece on par with gladiator and king Arthur, but it falls very short.
I highly recommend you get the book first and watch the movie after.