It's a challenge bringing Catch 22 to the screen and this version uses some of the narrative but misses the powerful satire, emotional strength and moral maze of the written word. It needed something very different to this storyline, serially staged, to portray the inner torment of Yossarian and the complex web of hapless attitudes and meaningless events that bring his story into full focus in the novel. It comes across as a run-of-the-mill war story with some good special effects but that is a long way from doing Catch 22 justice.
Review of Catch-22
