Jolie and Cohens absolutely butchered this

Rating: 3/10 (31 December 2014)

With complete respect to everyone who positively reviewed this movie, I don't know how you could give a good rating if you read the book. They butchered it, from the lack of a time line to the deafening silence in the second half of the movie. I ask in all sincerity, would a narrator not have made this movie 20 times better?
Think about it, someone to tell the story and emotionally attach you (moreso) to the characters would have done wonders for this picture. Unless you read the book I there was no way you really connected to the level that you needed to in order to truly feel the trials and tribulations Louis went through. There was such a deeper connection that needed to be made for this story to really grab hold of your soul, no way this film did it justice.
2 examples that I can give (although there are several) would be the failure to dive deeper into the psychological toll that repeated air raids would take on a man (I forget how many he went on but it was probably close to 50. The movie did not even touch on the statistics of how many airmen were lost, killed, or wounded in WWII (into the hundreds of thousands) or how many planes crashed or disappeared (over 50,000). Another example, the failure to more powerfully bond Louis and his family as well as show his struggle after the war. Butchered as I said. Terrible first showing of Angelina Jolie's direction, if this movie wins an Academy Award I will puke.