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I liked the book so was looking forward to the film but I admit I was rather disappointed though I can’t really nail why. It looked pretty and everyone seemed to be well cast but the dialogue was strangely lame and everything seemed to happen in a very unexciting way. It had a slightly rushed feeling to it and I found it oddly unengaging. There just wasn’t any thrill or tension. Also, the philosophy of it was laid on with absolutely no subtlety. A five year old could not fail to grasp it. As for what they did to the ending …I simply don’t understand why they changed it.

I caught myself a couple of times watching the audience watch the film and that’s unusual for me. Even if I only think something’s mediocre I can still be absorbed in it and forget I’m sat in a cinema at all. Of course, it may be my fault, I may just have been unable to concentrate for whatever reason. It may also be that I hae watched so many fantasy films over the last few years that I’ve reached saturation point. There are only so many beautiful computer generated cities one can look at before getting bored.

So, overall what can I say? It wasn’t a bad film but the fact that it was only ‘OK’ makes it a failure in my eyes as I can’t let go of my notions of how good it could have been.