You've got to be kidding me.

Rating: Null/10 (17 October 2003)

I hate this film. With a passion. I think the screen-writers have taken far too many liberties with one of the greatest pieces of literature written in the last 100 years, have completely changed characters for no valid reason, changed the story for their own purposes, and basically turned the whole thing into a giant piece of multi-million dollar fanfiction. I don't have a problem with fanfiction. I DO have a problem with fobbing off this stuff as the real story. (I have the same beef with so-called Bram Stoker's Dracula from '92.)
In the interest of fairness, I could not ask for a better looking production. Visually it's impressive beyond words. But that's not enough, in my mind, to counter the terrible injustice inflicted on the important bits...THE STORY!!
The only reason I'll be seeing the final installment is so that I don't have to hear second-hand how they screwed THAT up.