Overhyped

Rating: 7/10 (19 December 2001)

Just saw this movie at 12:00 a.m. with a bunch of friends. The movie attempts to, and almost accomplishes, its goal of matching the book. Therein lies its weakness. I found the movie much too slow with too few action sequences to justify 3 hours of playing time. A cinema event should give us an experience that makes us hold our breaths. The special effects were tremendous, something which did have me at the edge of my seat. However, as I stated before, the plot advancement seemed to crawl at times; in rare cases, it virtually stopped as it attempted the develop characters - something it failed to do at the expense of the storyline. Because of the pace of the story, I am giving it the following rating:

6 out of 10