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Title: Great book &#65533;. Absolutely horrid movie
Review: When I first read Battlefield earth nearly 20 years ago the cover said, "Soon to be a major motion picture!" and I could not wait. The more I thought about it however, I realized that no screenplay could take that much plot, character development, story and action and put it into a move lasting less than 20 hours. The movie adaptation is therefore no surprise. It leaves the viewer: - Laughing at the absurd coincidences that the humans fall into. Ex) 1000 old US Airplanes that still fly. - Mortified by the lackluster story. - With no sympathy for the humans struggle to survive due to NO character development. - With no fear Terl or appreciation of his capacity for evil - Absolutely no understanding of the aliens inhabiting earth - On and on and on ..... This story should have been left where it was best told, on paper.
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