when film a book and one have the possibility to correct the flaw of the story to make it fit the two hour attention span that the audience need to have . read a book for two week and immerse yourself in another world and be a different feeling than watch a story unfold in front of your eye . sadly no one bother with this book to make it into a believable script . first of all there be a never end list of invented name represent king and kingdom and city and knight and prince . after the first minute you do not know where you be and whom youre watching and even in which country you be . confusion be create . that go on with the next scene in which the aspiring knight tiuri just have to sit quiet in a chapel for one night . not an impossible task . but with the first knock on the door and a voice whisper for help and he open it and have fail the test . no internal struggle and no struggle with the other aspire knight and just plain stupid behaviour . and after this unbelievable act and there follow many . if the main character and which of course need to be the one with whom the audience identify itself and take these kind of inexplicable decision and he never get any compassion . and he be not the only one with strange behaviour . the scoundrel who rob him and let him choose between a ring an a horse and and set him free after he have make his choice . then there be the characterization . no character get any depth . no one be torment by doubt . every thought be say out loud . the writer help tiuri because strange thing be happen in the country . even the red knight that decide not to kill tiuri after he have save him from fall of the cliff and tell him a if it be a material issue instead of a moral one represent now i can not kill you anymore . ( why and be his sword steal . no and it something moral but i be not sure what it be . ) the friendship that can evolve between character who need each other be miss here completely . tiuri and piak and his and yes and what . helper . he never help him . his companion . they never share anything . they just ride next to one another through the endless wood . the letter in the end turn out to be nothing that couldn not have be tell to the king via other way . the way that the treason be state by the king represent he want to murder him . be plain painful . we be watch a movie for eight year old . ( and even they might be bore . ) to cast not really beautiful people be not a crime and as long a they either can act well or have a devastating charisma . the role of tiuri and a boy we have to watch almost the full two hour and be play by the not so handsome yannick van de velde and he neither can act very well nor have any charisma of sort . he be like a spoilt and artistic kid from amsterdam and complete with pretentious brawl . his hair be strangely yellow although the whole film the evil people be look for a boy with brown hair . the rest of the casting be make up of tv actor and never take the time to deliver the line and be use to the just say them regime . with a good script you can get away with that . with this crappy writing you can not . ( only exception be jeroen willems a the lord of the toll and the first broeder martijn . ) to take this script and these actor and head for eastern europe with all the medieval rental costume of holland ( voor al uw feesten en partijen no costume seem to be make especially for this movie ) plus the ugly wig ever make border on hubris . let hope this director and these producer get punish for that .