Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
3/4
Inferior to the Novel, but Still Entertaining
JLFM - wrote on 03/07/2013
Film adaptions of books must always reach a certain balance of differences and similarities to the book being adapted. Films like Holes (based on Louis Sachar's book of the same name) shows us what it looks like when a film is too faithful to it's source material. The film becomes predictable for those who have read the book, and frankly, the source material for Holes did not need a film.
On the other hand, films like the adaption of the first three books of A Series of Unfortunate Events, shows us what can happen if a film differs to much from the book. It greatly irritates those who have read the source material, and like Holes, the series did not need a film.
And Then There Were None (based on Agatha Christie's novel of the same name) falls a bit more to the "too different" side …
