Unsurprisingly faithful to the book although there are a few changes - things that were worked out on the page have to be brought into dialogue, there's a bigger part for the mistress of the hero, less reference to sex with twelve year olds and Victorian slang, the final capture is accelerated, there's less analysis of the society.
Because Crichton's characters were so weak his films depended on casting more than others - he was lucky to have Sean Connery here as the arch thief. Lesley Anne Downe is sexy as his girlfriend though her role is pretty much just "sexy". Donald Sutherland does his best as the second lead.
There is pleasing period detail, decent production value and that's really Connery at the end on the train, ducking his head under. The cleverness of the story worked better on the page - this has some of the life drained (could not Crichton have done more with Connery's minion, Barlow? I wish George Lazenby had played this part)
Still, totally fine.
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