just watch this after my mother bring it back from america for me and be dread watch this after all the negative comment on here but i have to say and yes the acting be cheesy and some of the effect be laughable . but you have to remember this be mean to be 1898 not 2005 and and for such a low budget i think it be quite good . i enjoy this version much more then the spielberg version i saw last week . i have read the book so many time and and find myself go ahh yes that in the book almost all the time and with the other version hardly anything of the book exist . so well do for at least try to make a true version .