I don't believe it was great necessarily, because it seemed to take a lot of its story boarding from the first film. Guess we'll see that in the European versions. One significant change is the emphasis on the war like aspects of the fight and that many would have to die to achieve victory. In the Lynch movie, it was all mighty Messianic war. Here people die.
War is hell.
The politics is kind of interesting too. I hear the director has been given the go ahead to do the second book. I look forward to that. If I remember the book correctly, all the principals are slowly killed off. Jessica, the sister, if I recall correctly, are history.