Wow, that was not a great use of three hours on a friday evening for me. I did not read the book or had any recollection of the movie from when I saw it a few years ago. Since I heard there's a remake in the making I thought it might be clever to give the so called classic a second chance. I'm sorry but I can't really see why people like this movie. There's way too much political stuff going on (it gets kind of explained for about 10 minutes in the prologue), also way too much explanation through voice over and on the other hand very slow and kind of boring overall pacing. The second half gets a bit faster and the final fights even had a nice soundtrack. It's hard to believe that this was made after Star Wars and the first Alien and is still praised as a cult classic. I guess it might be more enjoyable if you know the book, but I think a movie's enjoyability shouldn't depend on knowing the source material, so there's that. Feel free to enlighten me on what I did not get. I'd love to love this movie, really.