• Actor=Ben Mendelsohn
• Release Year=2018
• Tomatometer=7,8 / 10
• creator=Ernest Cline
• genre=Adventure
• Country=USA

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How many authors have fits when hollywood butchers the soul of their novel? Ernest Cline had the golden opportunity to faithfully reproduce a fantastic story as 1 of the 2 screenplay writers. What did he do? He reduced the fun and interesting quest for the first key to. a car race. win the race, get the key. wow! What a novel innovative idea. SERIOUSLY. br> I have to assume Speilberg never read the story or he wouldn't have agreed to direct the film, at least I hope he wouldn't caved like that. Maybe they just paid him a boatload of money.
I'll say the movie was okay standing all by itself. I'm sitting there in the theater thinking, okay, I expected the screenwriters to change the story, it's okay, it could have been worse. It was at least fun. then the credits start to roll and one of the first to roll by is the screenwriters and then I was ticked! Ernest Cline! What the hell were you thinking? Are you just simply out there to make a buck? I'm disappointed to say the least. YOU HAD THE POWER TO CONTROL THIS AND STILL DROVE IT OFF THE TRACKS! Sad.

I often get tired of hearing "The book is better than the movie. I tend to give a lot of leeway to film adaptations of novels, understanding that there is often far too much material to delve into and that some things just don't work as well on screen as they do on the page. In this case, we have a clear example of a captivating, soulful, and socially insightful work of fiction completely stripped of any of the qualities that make it great. The action sequences in the film are fantastic, of course, if a little too fast to appreciate at times. I shan't get into details, but Wade's sheer wishy-washiness in the film, the lack of character development, the absence of genuine camaraderie, the lackadaisical writing, the formulaic speeches, and the addition of hackneyed structural tropes all combine to make the film much less than it could have been.