I'm basing this review off of my love for the book. It's one of my favorite all time novels, and, when I first heard over two years ago that a movie was being made, I was a bit, worried, but, hoped that with such an amazing cast, and director, as there is noone in the film I am not a fan of, it could be done. Turns out, that was a false hope. The movie lost the entire essence of the simplicity and power that made the book the masterpiece it truly is. Please, do yourself a favor, and read the novel. This strips the story of it's integrity with a rushed, over CGI-ed, and hardly truthful script. Not only did it make the mistake of leaving a large chunk of important events out of the script, the events it kept, it changed, making some events laughable to watch, and hard to sit through without questioning the thought process of the director. Huge dissapointment, it might be a decent movie if it had no connections to any other story, but, that it's based of a novel so much greater then itself, is where it fails.