Spiff speaks the truth.

The book was bland, the movie is apparently even worse and it's getting reviews akin to Alexander which isn't remotely near a good thing.

I'm curious to see how the fanboys will react to the movie. I'm thinking that even after watching it and cringing through the film, they exit the theater applauding the movie and then go onto internet forums and defend this adaptation of their book to the death.

Apparently Ian McKellen was really great in his role though. The only character who managed to be interesting. But he's always brilliant so that's not a surprise.