I just went to see it yesterday and I was kinda disappointed. I've never read the book, so I didn't really know what I was getting myself into, but I expected a movie that would be at least as good as "Narnia". Unfortunately it was not really that good, but just mediocre I guess.

I remember quite a lot of cheesy moments and details in the movie, and they were some scenes that seemed pretty awkward and out of place. The story itself was fine, but because the movie wasn't that long everything happened so fast that I didn't really get a true sense of some of the characters and such.

The acting was generally mediocre. Ed Speleer, or whatever his name is, who plays Eragon does an OK job. There are some moments were his acting seems a bit off or strange, but maybe it's the character.. I'm not really sure. Jeremy Irons does a nice job, and Sienna Guillory (sp?) and John Malcovich are also just OK. The true star of the movie was Rachel Weisz, who did the voice for the dragon Saphira - she was the only really interesting and wholesome character of the movie, and it also helped a lot that the dragon was really, really well made... The rest of the special effects were also quite amazing.

Overall it was a mediocre movie - if a sequel is made they should try to eliminate the cheesy-ness and concentrate on the story and characters.