The fact that it was not credited as an adaptation pretty much ruined the movie for me-- as I was watching it, I kept thinking "This is just a rip-off of The Ma

The fact that it was not credited as an adaptation pretty much ruined the movie for me-- as I was watching it, I kept thinking "This is just a rip-off of The Magus". As an adaptation, the film was quite good. As an (alleged) original work, it was a total failure.