When I was a teenager one of my favorite book series to read was the Maximum Ride books. They were written by James Patterson, the first book titled the Angel Experiment came out in 2006 and there are eleven books in the series. For those of you who like manga it was also adapted into a manga series. As far as books go I give it four out of five stars. It has a lot of good sci-fi elements as well as elements from the superhero genre. It does play into a lot of tropes from the YA genre but it has a diverse cast of different characters that are well thought out and interesting. I 2016 I had heard they made a movie of this series and it immediately sparked my interest. When i saw the movie it was such an abysmal pile crap that it made me want to break a window. For a little bit of context the movie was not released in theatres it had a digital release and spent some time on Netflix. I ended up seeing it on Netflix and that's where my disappointment started. I'm thoroughly convinced they didn't even try to put it in theatres because it was so appalling. The movie adapts the first half of the first book and it fails in every conceivable category. The cinematography is horrid, the editing makes me want to have a seizure, and the CGI is stumpy and unrealistic. The acting is reminiscent of Tommy Wiseau in the room. In fact the movie probably would have been improved if they got Tommy Wiseau to play every single role. It was directed by Jay Martin whose most notable work comes from directing several music videos for Shawn Mendes. If I'm right this was his first venture into directing features and if there's any justice it'll be his last. I'm a thousand percent certain that I can call up a group of my old friends from film school and we could make a better movie than what these guys tried to do with adapting maximum ride. So if you ever complain that an movie adaption of your favorite book didn't live up to your expectation just remember this post and how disappointed Chris Frits was when he saw he maximum ride movie.