A novelization of the film -- for the first half of this volume, Coe writes up a storm, creating clever characterizations and embellishing the action. In the second half, the prose loses its life and its coherence. Maybe the author ran out of time and was speedwriting the rest of the film's plot. The actions seems abrupt and implausible when translated to the written page who were those weird kids in the woods, why did Marion come to fight on the beach, what was those ridiculous goulash about forcing King John to accept a set of rights? It all sped by too fast without adequate exploration.
