I liked it, but I didn't think it was mindblowing. I looked up the genreal plot of the original book, and that seemed very interesting. I might have to check that out sometime. Anyway, I probably liked it most than more people because I have a morbid fascination with an isolation/deserted theme. This is probably why I liked "Castaway" a lot and am obsessed with the Solitary Island sequence in FFVI. Stuff like that depresses the hell out of me, but I can't help but watch it.