[jhbadger]

I saw the movie with a friend who had never read the book nor seen the miniseries and he couldn't really follow it. I could (barely) from my experience from the book and series. Two hours is just too short to convey such a complex story.

[klenwell]

I had read the book as well and I still had to watch it several times to appreciate all the nuance and really put it all together.

For example (warning: potential spoilers, though you'd have to be pretty super attentive to detail if you ended up noticing this the first time through the film):

https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/91858

Fortunately, it is (or was) on Netflix so I was able to do that.

I probably watched it at least a dozen times and with every viewing I would still manage to find some new little meaningful detail I had missed before. If I can't find anything new that interests me on Netflix (not hard), I'll usually just queue it up again. Great film.