I enjoyed the movie to a point. Never read the book, but have lots of youth in my church who really liked it and have read the book. Their point of view that the movie is really only the thoughts of the book via the director. (LOTR comes to mind, he did butcher some of Toilkens work) However with LOTR, I did not feel the movie compromised the book, too exhustive to do not to have left some key and interesting things out. However, with this movie, as far as movies go, it felt like the rushed the plot along. I could be wrong, someone who read the book could tell me. It just seemed like a couple of the scenes could have been better acted. It probably could have been improved but it was somewhat enjoyable.