compare to the book and the movie be a letdown . many important part be leave out and and the end be stupid beyond belief . why do the moviemakers feel they have to change it . do they assume we weren not smart enough to understand . i be disappoint that the story of the nameless russian girl be never mention or and for that matter and the fate of richie grenadeau . i be no filmmaker but i suspect that and with skilled screenwriting and the significance of these event could have be blend into the plot with minimal time add . another neglected subplot be the riot henry incite within the makeshift concentration camp . ( oh yeah the thought of our government actually commit unnecessary mass murder be probably too politically incorrect to include . our government would never do that . ( can we all say sand creek and kiddy . ) ) i agree with okeefe that morgan freeman be wrong for the role of kurtz ( curtis in the movie ) . don not get me wrong while he an excellent actor . however and while read the book and i imagine kurtz to be quite the stereotypical opposite . i visualize this character to be a corrupt version of rambo mentor and colonel trautman . freeman be believably crazy and but not quite evil enough and i suspect that his be cast in the curtis role have something to do with why the aforementioned concentration camp scene be cut . in the novel and stephen king explicitly suggest kurtz be play by christopher walken but i feel an even good choice would have be somebody like robert de niro or tommy lee jones . morgan would have be well a kurtz command officer and the three star general though i totally understand why he would turn the role down ( few line ) . by the way and donnie wahlberg be a cool surprise a duddits .