There were only a few things good about the movie, the actors which played Royan, Nahood, Taita, Boris, Mick and Tessay were well-chosen, the rest were just parodies of the characters in the book, Rasfer was the worst, it didn't get even close to the character that was in my head while I wrote the book. There was nothing in the movie about Nicolas being English and Royan was a Coptic-Christian in the book, not a Muslim.This list is endless.
the tomb itself was made in a maze with only a possibility to pass if one knows the rules of the ancient boa-game. there is supposed to be a channel that has some kind of vacuum-suction around it. the whole thing about the tomb is also very wrong.
Taila is supposed to have invented the lightweight-chariot.
they did it awfully wrong! at first this kid Hapi,who isn't any character in the book, then the mix between the two books ('the river god' and 'the seventh scroll') than Nicolas needing funds while in the book he himself is actually the funder, the whole thing about the Hyksos is wrong also. I bought the movie a week ago on DVD and watched it. Well, I've read the book first and thought: wow would this be cool to see in a movie, than I started searching and found there was already a movie made of it. Only a moment of supreme generosity persuaded me to give this movie a ranking of '2', and that only because of the beautiful, sometimes spectacular, photography. You will be sorely disappointed, I assure you. If you've read either or both of the books, don't waste your time or money watching this money. And why is an Egyptian henchman speaking Spanish? Geesh, no wonder the movie was made into a TV miniseries! Did Wilbur Smith have any input into the making of this movie? I can't believe that he did. Smith's vibrant characterizations are converted into wooden stick figures, all historicity is ignored or discounted, the realism of the books has been changed to include phantom monsters more appropriate to a cartoon. I can only believe that the writers, director and producers of the movie have never even heard of Mr. While I agree some poetic license may be admissible, this movie is at constant variance with the books, doing an incredible injustice to the exciting, plausible and wonderful stories written by Wilbur Smith. After reading both _River_God_ and _The_Seventh_Scroll_, I can't begin to express how disappointed I was with this film.
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