Watched the movie after reading the book and I think it's a good adaptation. They made a good attempt at giving a visual flair to the original source.
So as much as I appreciate it as an adaptation especially if we compare it to similar works made in the past I'm not sure the movie itself is that good to stand alone for someone who is not that interested in the story.
If you read the book most of the time it will be people trying to piece the clues together and investigate and think, but everything in the movie happens at once, which I somehow appreciate because it has a good rhythm and I enjoyed the fact that the hotel customer stories intertwine more compared to what goes on in the book but at the same time everything happens so fast and it doesn't really give the viewer the time to wonder about what is going on, it's just one twist after another.
Rant about the plot (spoiler area): X4 gets painted as some kind of genius but then has the super asinine idea of waiting just outside the hotel for the whole damn night while is was pouring. I don't know: just go back a couple more times and wait for the staff to start the night shift, wait in the lobby, you really could not come up with a better solution??! Geez
The acting anyway is good. I'd still recommend the movie.
So as much as I appreciate it as an adaptation especially if we compare it to similar works made in the past I'm not sure the movie itself is that good to stand alone for someone who is not that interested in the story.
If you read the book most of the time it will be people trying to piece the clues together and investigate and think, but everything in the movie happens at once, which I somehow appreciate because it has a good rhythm and I enjoyed the fact that the hotel customer stories intertwine more compared to what goes on in the book but at the same time everything happens so fast and it doesn't really give the viewer the time to wonder about what is going on, it's just one twist after another.
Rant about the plot (spoiler area): X4 gets painted as some kind of genius but then has the super asinine idea of waiting just outside the hotel for the whole damn night while is was pouring. I don't know: just go back a couple more times and wait for the staff to start the night shift, wait in the lobby, you really could not come up with a better solution??! Geez
The acting anyway is good. I'd still recommend the movie.