i like the book . i really do . i think it be a great fantasy story with dynamic and entertaining and and complex character . the plot be great while it be an intricate and well do book . when i hear a movie be be make and i be excite . i have hop they would take this great book and make it the next big fantasy series . i be sorely mistaken . first of all and how can you possibly expect to take such a long book and cram it into 1hr and 40min . imo and any fantasy movie such a this should be at least 2 hour and preferably more . because what do fantasy appeal to . intelligent people . next and the acting be terrible . even jeremy iron and john malkovich ( who there be more of in the trailer than the actual movie ) be laughable . saphira a rachel weisz wasn not particularly well cast while she sound a bit young and not very wise and a saphira be suppose to be . ed speleers and ouch . there be no expression in his voice at all . every line sound the same represent so monotonic . sienna guilliory a arya be depress . act more like a teenager than the wise elf she be suppose to be . the only pretty decent character be durza ( robert carlyle ) and murtagh ( garrett hedlund ) . whoever write this should be fire . this be the most clichéd movie i have ever hear . one line be say about 5 time . it utterly disgust . you know right what gon na come out of a character mouth even before he or she say it . oh and and this represent time to fly and do or die . i bust out laugh during one of the tense part of the movie . to top it off and this movie be bore . all the action be over in about 6 10 minute . the rest be just dialogue that serve to advance a poorly cut plot that the audience isn not interested in . the whole thing seem very pieced together . scene continually cut to one another and give an episodic feel and mess up the movie flow . the whole thing be just cheesy . overall and read the book . skip the movie . you will be so disappointed .