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Title: Stick with the movie!
Review: Realizing that the screenplay was written first, I expected the book to follow the movie rather closely. It felt as though this book was written not from the final script, but rather from an early draft. Mr. Collins' novelisation follows the movie closely in the area of plot only. Not many of the classic movie lines were actually in this book (very disappointing). Not many lines altogether matched up with the on-screen version. The novel portrayed Rick O'Connell to have more of an Indiana-Jones-cynical sense of humor, rather than the casual humor shown on screen. Almost the entire portrayal of the O'Connell's son, Alex, was off: Collins portrayed him much younger (and maybe more of a real-world 8 yr old); his spunk didn't shine through as much as it did in the movie.Depth was missing in this novel. Characterisation was also off. If you're looking for a way to "relive" the movie, or see it in more detail, skip the novel and watch the movie again.
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