As a blind reader, I wanted to read this bok for one simple reason: I loved the movie, but much of it was missed by me, since it has so many scenes of fast-paced combat. I read the bok hoping to learn more of the things going on in the movie. In this sense, the bok accomplished, for the most part, what I wanted from it. I think it must have been drafted from an early version of the screenplay, though, because there's much more foul language in the bok than there was in the movie, and some scenes, particularly in the tank battle, are either diferent or missing altogether from te book. Other scenes are missing from the movie, but this is par for the novelization. All in all, I enjoyed the bok, but I can't give it 5 stars because I think several scenes worked better as they were re-written, not the way they were writen in the bok. To be fair, I can't really blame Collins for this, though, since I'm pretty sure that dialogue was, for the most part, taken directly from the version of the screenplay he used to write the novelization.