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Title: Nothing like the novel!
Review: This is in no way a faithful adaptation. Forget bad period detail or the fake use of American locations and bad American actors, the real villain is the script. It skips much of what is great about the novel, such as Dead London, and leaves all the trivia. It's as if the writer read the book but couldn't understand it at all and kept in all the wrong things. The result is a complete travesty of the book. Even the few good moments in the script, like the encounter with the Artilleryman, are over-edited down. The fact that the actor in the part has no idea what an English accent sounds like just turns the scene into comedy.Wells would hate it and so will you.
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