I'll not say a word that the movie has nothing to do with the book. If you have read it, and more over -- you've liked the reading, I beg you not to watch it just not to feel sorry for wasting 2,5 hours of your time. But the matter is that if you haven't, you'd also feel sorry for the time wasted. The actors are talented indeed -- but you will never get it from the movie. The fights are awful and general as the plot itself, you can't see who is doing what, and it's pretty hard to understand why they behave the way they do. Too many stamps. The main (and originally deep) idea of "Wolfhound looking for another life purpose after having done the only thing he've been dreaming about for 20 years" was transformed in an ordinary love story with some extra mystical evil. Not once you will recognize episodes from the Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones, Star Wars and Night Watch: Nochnoj Dozor. Someone in a web review said that the Wolfhound reminds a cartoon, where each has his own part and plays it in the most obvious way with the same face expression during the whole movie. I do subscribe to the point. The only good thing about the movie is the Bat -- the Wolfhound's pet. By the way -- in a matter of fact the Hero got his nick ('coz it's not his true name) for killing the slave-driver named Wolf. But they never explained it...
