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Review title: Not a bad adaptation ...
Product review: It's just a bad film fullstop. I am a long time Le guin fan, but am not in the least bit purist. I wasn't expecting a faithful adaptation and was prepared to judge this film on its own merits. Unfortunately, with or without reference to the book this is a truly awful movie. Acting is so-so, the CGI is amateurish, the dialogue stinks (particularly so in the region of the denouement) and the narrative thread is an absolute tangle.The way people seem to whizz from one end of Earthsea to the other by boat in a matter of minutes beggars belief and exposes the sheer incompetence of the screenwriters. Roke University is more Rowlings than Le Guin. The dragon Orm Embar lacked all context and would have been better left out altogether. Possibly the worst feature of all was the "nameless ones"; instead of the ancient beings of immense power and evil that the movie had been trying to build up to, we were given overgrown bats!
