This of course, did not live up to the hype. It was a nice movie but not one that I would stand in a longline @ midnight to attend. The makeup was a little surreal and a little too geisha like. I chuckled when Carlisle came out, he looked as though he just had powder thrown at him. You would of needed to read the book for all of the little nuances referred to in the movie and the ending should of had a little more dramatic build up but all in all a nice pg13 movie. I would buy the dvd.