First of all, I listened to source material audio book that this movie is based on and I agree with most of the changes the movie made... book readers are notorious babies when movies make changes to the source material and have a difficult time comprehending that movies are vastly different medians then books and can't get away with many of the storylines that books can get away with in general, however things can get a bit tricky when large amounts of source material get crammed into a 2 hour movie, which is where this movie struggles. Even had I not listened to the audio book this movie would have still seemed like gargantuan chunks had been taken out of the story.. Worst of all, Hallidays Contest was lost in this mishmash of a movie, which is where much of the entertainment would have otherwise been..Instead it was a jumbled disaster that rarely if ever gave us the suspense of competition/race. It's extremely weird and difficult to put into words, but I'd be willing to bet that nearly everyone who watches this movie (like or hate) knows exactly what I mean. It should have been this exciting/suspenseful race throughout the contest, but it seldom gave us that vibe.