3-4 days if english is not your first language. If you want a good detective story go read the book. I'm sorry but most of the cast were bad, which is sad because most of them proved their talent in other projects (except Gal Gadot. The green screen OMG looks like someone cutout the character from a green screen with his phone and then pasted on a badly drawn background. The CGI looks like a cutscene from a Playstation 3 game. Another thing that ruined the movie is the horrendous CGI. WHY? These changes completely ruined the smooth structure of the book to "simplify" it for modern audiences I suppose but again, WHY? The book is not that difficult to follow. Some characters from the book are combined in a single character in the movie and not for the best. The book is not a long book just short of a 300 pages, so why the unnecessary changes to the characters from the book? It either broke interesting characters or completely removed them.
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