Script review - "Catch 22" by Buck Henry

I remember loving the novel for its pace and wit and disliking the film for being unfunny and so long, confusing and lumbered. David Shipman wrote that Buck Henry did a good job knocking the script into shape but was let down by Mike Nichols' direction. Reading this, for me the flaw it in the script.

This takes forever, over 200 pages, isn't very engaging or funny. The female characters are all sex objects, it was hard for me to tell characters apart on the page. It perked up in the last third when people started dying.