I didn't like the book, would I enjoy the movie. I did learn many of my issues with the book are related to the translation, but it's mostly the weird particles that made it feel off to me.
The sophons were definitely weird/fantastic but I do really like his breakdown of interstellar war in the context of no FTL travel and how it would behoove a civilization to invest enormous resources into something that can travel close to light speed and disrupt technological expansion