Title: Agonizing, if you read the book
Product review: Steven Gould's book was a treasure. That made what Hollywood has done to it too painful to watch. I flung the DVD after about 15 minutes. Special effects can be nice, but they cannot compensate for a script written at the 5th grade level, or the stupidity of a plot that has a vast organization with unbelievable special equipment, credentials from every government agency, and which never has any problem with the police, all chasing teenagers who could easily kill its agents. I hope Steven got a lot of money, and I can understand why he does not want his name associated with this offal. The director put his signature on it - kind of like the dog putting his signature on a fireplug.
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