It's been said before, but still... having just re-read the book, I thought it was finally time to see the movie adaptation (if that's what you want to call it). Absolutely horrible changes they made to the story! I get that you might have to cut some parts out, or rewrite something to make it fit into a 2-hour movie, but why waste time with the totally useless Langdon-Sinskey "romance" instead of some actual storytelling? Of course, the whole changed ending (which I had heard about) is, in a word, shit. Sienna is suddenly "evil", there are bombs going off, the provost is now a knife-wielding action man, and the virus isn't released!? The whole last part inside the cistern made no sense at all. "Dr. Sinskey" sees the bag explode inside the plexiglass thing and just declares that the virus is contained. No testing, no nothing, she just knows. So-so movie on its own, but an absolutely horrible book-to-movie.
Shout by DinsdaleBlockedParent2020-07-06T05:40:58Z
It's been said before, but still... having just re-read the book, I thought it was finally time to see the movie adaptation (if that's what you want to call it).
Absolutely horrible changes they made to the story! I get that you might have to cut some parts out, or rewrite something to make it fit into a 2-hour movie, but why waste time with the totally useless Langdon-Sinskey "romance" instead of some actual storytelling?
Of course, the whole changed ending (which I had heard about) is, in a word, shit.
Sienna is suddenly "evil", there are bombs going off, the provost is now a knife-wielding action man, and the virus isn't released!?
The whole last part inside the cistern made no sense at all. "Dr. Sinskey" sees the bag explode inside the plexiglass thing and just declares that the virus is contained. No testing, no nothing, she just knows.
So-so movie on its own, but an absolutely horrible book-to-movie.