This movie is exactly the reason that people cringe when someone makes a movie out of a book. It's not that it's different from the book -- THAT I could have accepted. What is unacceptable is the incompetence with which the writer producers handled the material. Typical lowbrow Hollywood treatment of a very good book series. I was unfortunate enough to have wasted several hours of my life on this and I feel a need to ask for them back. Hollywood Hack garbage at its worst. The casting, the styling, all very low budget. Thumbs down and a 1 out of 10. Not only was the dialogue written as if by a fourth grader from a foreign country, but the casting was hyper-stylized to the point that it distracted from the story. And speaking of story, where was it? It look as if the writers just pulled a page out of Joseph Cambell and xeroxed it into their template -- with one very obvious omission -- HEART. You can write all the formula you want, but if it's just copied from better writers, you will always end up with rubbish. I am so irritated with the awful treatment of the original material that I find it hard to bring to words.
