Desroko on 09 August 2009
I agree that the ending worked much, much better in the novel, over several hundred pages and several weeks of story time, than in the movie, over two hours and essentially a weekend.
It had some excellent scenes - the panic on the river is genuinely chilling, and the scene I always come back to when I'm in a charitable mood - but it's hampered by Spielberg's sentimentality and an anticlimactic ending. It's not bad, but it's not good.
