Title: Don't watch it if you've read the book
Product review: Don't watch it if you've read the book. This is a total disappointment. It was only about 40% true to the original book. It has a totally different feel from the book itself. So if you were fascinated by the book, don't watch the movie, the personalities of the characters are different from the book (Gesar a fat middle-aged man wearing cheap suits, Zabulon a punk playing video games, Anton a hysterical coward, you get the idea), the story line is also different from the book, the whole exotic feel , mystic feeling is gone. Either the director was not good or the actors were not good enough, the acting of almost all the characters feels very forced and unrealistic. Cannot be compared to either the LOTR series or even the Harry Potter series, just can't, not the same level at all.
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