crude and unimaginative adaptation of christopher paolini first novel be a bad joke from top to bottom . the screenplay be a joke and with major character miss from the original novel and the acting from almost everybody in the film be down right horrible and that really because most of the role be miscast to begin with . jeremy iron make an grant effort with what he have to work with but he let down by the script and the bad performance of his co star and the only solid piece of real act come from the voice over work of rachel weisz and who give the dragon saphira enough charm and charisma and and strong will to make her the only believable and likable character in the entire film . that in itself a great accomplishment consider the fact that script really do not even try to do that with itself .