Movie was awesome the book should be better
598190
I loved the movie so iam excited to start on the book :)..Steve is crazy but he always keeps it 100 all the time :)
168015
I liked the book much better. I feared it wouldn't translate well to film and I was right. Such a disappointment.
3714421
saw the movie first.  The book  is much better.
4190924
Was a little disappointed with this art book  very good movie should had a better book
555252
After reading the book (which is awesome by the way) I purchased the movie. The acting is good and the special effects and fight scenes are good. The problem i have is that some of the rewrites from the book make no scene what so ever. Changing things from book to movie is important but changing alot of stuff isnt. If you have read the book just know that the action scene at the end isn't as long or strategic in the movie instead its shorter and faster pace. Also they never mention Home Ec class in the movie which is a big mistake because its an important part of John and Sarah's relationship. If you haven't read the book then its a typical teenage highschool movie but in a Scifi enviornment.
1644154
The movie was better. The book is repetitive, and the characters all read exactly alike.

Still enjoyable, but the movie is more focused with better characterizations.
3007350
I know that they can't put the whole book into the movie, but I really wish they could. As far as movies go it was good and the plot was goo. The problem was that I read the book before seeing the movie.  My friends who have not read the book loved the movie, but I was missing some of the elements that I thought were important from the book. Overall a good film, but don't get your hopes too high.
2361641
I've watched the movie but after reading the book  I thought the book was a bit better than the movie.
663985
So glad that I saw the movie, much better than the book. For the character to be mid class business minded people the ghetto language was a serious turn off.
2242389
Idk y the movie left out so much this is better than the movie.  The movie was good don't get me wrong but the books are always better.
21677
The good: I love the movie made from this book, and I was pleasantly surprised that the earthy and spiritual aspects of the film are so prevalent in the book. Robert Nathan has a daring way with words.

The not as good: A bit too wordy at times and full of description that doesn't drive the story very much. NO SPOILER, but it also ends in a way that doesn't live up to the rest of the story. It's almost not credible how the character at the end reacts to one thing in particular. The entire emotional arc falls off a cliff at the end.

To the Kindle: Again, no spoilers, but this book ends with a word, a comma, and another word, like this:

Word,
Word.

Well, this edition is missing the second word. And the first word is so out of left field, you can't guess the second word. In fact, it looks like a paragraph--or a CHAPTER--is missing. So, you get to the end and don't know for sure how the book ends! I had to go back online and ORDER THE PAPERBACK to find out what was missing. That's how I know it's just one word. The publisher needs to fix their epub file. Ridiculous to have to go order the book in a second format to find out how it ends!

Story: 3.5
Gets 3.0 for crummy last-page formatting. The LAST PAGE, of all pages, to be missing text. Unreal!
1881628
I hate being the one to say that the book was so much better but in this case it was. This movie just cut out way to much. If I hadn't read the book I would have had very little Idea as to what was going on in this movie.
1530999
The movie was poorly done. It trailed away from the book a lot. Or so I thought.
4260998
Well done movie.  But the book was way better.  Read book first!
Screenplay only followed 30% of book, and was not well integrated. But still a good action movie.
3997038
The video is far superior to the book. It deviates quite a bit from the book which makes for a more compeling story.
4466107
Usually I like the book better than the movie, but in this case I must say the book was too full of minute details without the personal aspects. Normally I read first and see the movie after. Perhaps if I had stuck to that process I would have been more favorable towards the book.
4149632
Overall the movie wasn't bad, I just think that they were too focused on the special effects and not the story. The overall story seemed rushed and what was probably pivotal plot points in the book seemed to be missing from the movie.