High production costs, low stakes.

Rating: 1/10 (7 October 2002)

If you haven't read the books or had any contact with this story before seeing the movie then you could care less what happens to the characters. It is a very long movie that is completely full of plot with no character motivation driving it forward. I never got a chance to care one way or the other about these creatures and therefore didn't care who died or why. Hollywood has a knee-jerk reaction to make movie out of books and they're almost always horrible. I wish this would have remained just a book so that I would have remained undiscouraged about reading it. Maybe I still will, if for nothing else to get the stale taste of this horrible film out of my mouth.