The producers wasted the money, the film crew - effort and we, i.e the viewers, time!!! Maybe reading the book entices the imagination to cope with the misterious creatures, but the story itself and the script is not compatible with a movie. As visual art, the movie - in this case is 'much ado about nothing' as great actors as John Malkovich and Sandra Bullock run amok blindfolded instead of being sorry for their own failure to reject such a script! I feel sorry for the actors and the director who accepted an impossible task - just to fail.