If you read or heard the audio book, you may faintly recognize this movie as a completely condensed, misaligned sketch of the actual story. The one good thing they left out of this movie was the irritating, recipes at the end of every chapter. It was like a Food Network sponsored thriller. This should have been a two or three part mini-series in order to capture the depth of these characters and the intricacies of the story. Without including spoilers, it is important to note that there many aspects of the book that have been changed or left out that are significant enough to make this some sort of an alternate universe version of the book instead of something edited for running time in a theatrical film. I know the written story, and still had some trouble understanding what the film was trying to establish. For someone who has no idea about the book, I would imagine this would look like a hastily edited, hash of a movie with no real connection between the characters or richness to the intrigue, which is exactly what it is. The standard violence, nudity and language are about on par with the book, with a slight edge to the book on excessive graphic language and in depth descriptions of sex and violence. I didn't hate it, but knowing what it didn't do and how it might have been better presented made it a 5/10 for me... and that's including one point for not putting those damn recipes in the film.