Ron Howard had great material to with in translating this page-turner into a movie, and yet the movie fell completely flat. The acting was unbelievable due to a script that relied on cliches, and the action simply rushed the viewer through the most sensationalist parts of the book. The changes made and the parts left out from the book version compromised the integrity of the story so much that the story feels almost unrecognizable to a viewer who has read the book.