Title: Read the book...
Product review: Read the book (it is superb), skip the film. This made for TV effort by TNT has so many departures from the original story it is almost a different tale. In addition, trying to condense 800+ pages into three hours means some serious editing has been done. The result is a choppy difficult to follow film that leaves the viewer disappointed. The book could be remade into an excellent film multi-part film by a good film studio with a good budget and a script that more closely follows the book (like the LOTR films for example).
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