Beyond tedious and weird. The book is infinitely better. I went to see this with a group of friends and unanimously we considered it a boring waste of time. The cinematography was reasonable, the actors are good, but the overall production proved you can take a good book and turn it into a tedious film which over-focuses on the wrong sub-plots and scenes and omits what probably should have been included. What makes this particularly frustrating, is that the geo-period of history it was set in was so intriguing - a lost opportunity!