Don't hope or you'll be disappointed, Hollywood prevails

Rating: 3/10 (1 August 2006)

Well, every good part of the movie was taken from the book, and half of it which was rewritten is terrible. They have changed so much for commercial reasons, flattened the story, simplified it, took every human aspect away. The movie could be made without changes and would still sell, but no. The party leader isn't a man in the movie rather an angry, dumb psychotic face on an lcd screen. One of the best parts originally was the his humanity, his complexes his love for his nation. They changed the story line, the ending is different (beggining too) excellent characters were taken out, great points of the plot. The Kitch rules. There are two good actors, Nataly Portman (surprisingly) and Stephen Rea, most others are written too simply to have a chance to act bad. The technology the Brothers added - giant lcd screens, new age computers - also make it worse.
Beside the bad points, the movie has beautiful shots in it, although i still liked these shots better in the comics (really). If you haven't read the graphic novel than you'll enjoy it more than i did, but if you enjoyed it you must read the book, you'll like it more it will also explain many things you didn't understand because of the missing scenes.
I'm not saying not to watch it, - watch it, but wait for it to come out on TV, the theater screen is either for excellent movies or for ones that there's no point to watch without the special feel the theater gives to the visual and sound effects (lord of the rings). This one is neither.