on form and ian mcewan be the outstanding novelist of his generation . unfortunately and endure love be not one of his better work . the story could perhaps be make to work well on film and but this out suggest not . the spectacular opening to the novel be faithfully capture here and when the main player quite literally drop into our life . the other strong point of the novel be the suggestion that jed may just be a figment of the protagonist imagination and an intriguing plot device sadly not employ by the filmmaker . in the novel and the fact that joe never call the police hint at delusion on joe part while in the film and with jed clearly all too real and the absence of any report to authority about jed stalking puncture our suspension of disbelief . craig put in another wide ranging performance and while morton and never less than awe inspiring and be flawless . rhys ifans redeem himself for the replacement with a genuinely unnerving performance . who think that soppy welsh git from notting hill could be this scary . however and outstanding performance alone can not redeem a less than compel story . a two hour film just do not allow the time and scope for the exploration of theme involve religion and psychology and biology and physic that mcewan dissects so well in his prose . in the film version of endure love and there be something arid and stilted about all the clamour and confusion in the relationship . a lot of sound and fury and signify nothing and to paraphrase the bard . de clerambault be a fascinating and but obscure and rarely glimpsed syndrome . i read the novel when it come out and and remember thinking after read the last page and so what . in that sense and i suppose and the film be a faithful adaptation of the book .