Excellent movie. A vast improvement over the first one. A few liberties were taken with the plot of the book, but not many and they weren’t detrimental to the movie or the book. I did, however, take issue with the fact that we were not informed that this was only the first in a series. Only 1/3-1/2 of the book was portrayed. Crowd was disappointed at the sudden ending, especially those who had not read the book and didn’t realize that this was only the beginning of the book. Some warning would have been appreciated.