Never read the novel, but I saw the film. It was okay, sort of an Australian Red Dawn. My only issue with it is that it had a terrible scene jammed into it where a character tells another one reading a different dystopian book that the novel is generally better than the movie.

Here’s the incredibly ham-fisted dialogue.

Ellie Linton: Good book?
Corrie Mackenzie: Better than the movie.
Ellie Linton: Yeah, books usually are.

I get it. Read the novel after watching the film even if I didn’t like the film. You don’t have to tell it to me in the movie.

Like I said, it wasn’t bad otherwise.

An extremely popular YA author here in Australia, and I’ve heard his books, especially the Tomorrow Series, are popular elsewhere. For anyone with teens who haven’t read it (or anyone wanting a really good bit of quite serious fiction that doesn’t mind the fact that it’s YA), I highly recommend it.