I see what the viewers who liked the film liked, and I see what the viewers who hated the film hated. It is a mess. Movies based on books are watched by two very different audiences - those who know the book and those who don't. I read and enjoyed the three Jason Matthews books. I adored the first one, loved the second one, and liked the third one. But this puts me in the group that sees everything in the movie as either from the book, or from left field. I also "see" everything that was in the book but WASN'T in the film,

Casting - I'm so used to "Hollywood" using an international talent pool that I've run out of outrage when Englishmen play Russians and Australians play Americans. I'm over it.

Language - (see Casting, above). Guess what? None of the accents are ever correct. And all the Russians speak English. Get over it.

Plot - the carefully-constructed plots of at least 2 of the 3 books were put into a Blender and pureed together. The screenplay literally makes no sense. This will surely inflame all the book lovers, and some of the rest of the audience. Some deviations from the book are unimportant. Early in the book, Nate Nash transfers from the US Embassy in Moscow to the one in Helsinki. In the movie, he's brought back to Washington instead. That really doesn't make much difference to anything. On the other hand, the book makes clear that Dominika has had martial arts and espionage training in addition to "whore school". Leaving that out of the movie makes it unbelievable that she can kick so much butt.

These are supposedly two highly-trained case officers trying to recruit agents (spies). She's looking for Nate, but he just stumbles on her. All the book's careful description of their attempts to suborn the other are left out, so here they just tell each other that they are intelligence operatives. On what planet would that happen?

None of the Russian SVR Headquarters "office politics" make it into the movie, so it is puzzling that some of Egorova's colleagues are working against her. None of her inner feelings about her sexuality are explained, so her love scenes make no sense. None of her empathic powers are mentioned, so her intuitions make no sense. I could go on.

To sum up: if you read the book, don't go to the movie - you'll hate it. If you didn't read the book, and if you normally pay little attention to screenplays, dialogues, character development and plotlines, go for it. ,