Imajica

I have to side with the naysayers on this one. I usually really enjoy Clive Barker but Imajica seems stuffed with excess that suffocates the main story line. Having reached its end, the through line is a great idea and could have made for a fantastic novel if the approach had been more focused. Easily half the book involves situations and characters that don't seem to add anything to the story and I kept waiting for the plot to meander its way back to where it was going - again and again. Clive Barker has deemed Imajica “unfilmable” and I think that's partly a recognition of the problem. It's fantastical representation and exploration of christianity is really well thought out and at it's core would make for an equally interesting film but in it's current form it involves far too much pointless meandering that would flummox filmgoers just as much as it did me.