Just like Ghost in the shell (2017), the filmmakers took all subtlety the book had and threw it out the window. The story is so surface level and obvious that it completely ruins the point of the book. Moreover, the story is butchered and hacked up to a point where its no longer recognizable. Clarice's role of opening Guy's eyes is completely offloaded on to Beatty, so when Guy does meet her, it feels out of no where. Also, the movie takes the story of the book and shove it all into the first 40 minutes of the movie, so when they realized they had another hour and ten to fill, they introduce this stupid plot about the "omnis" to pad for time. and finally, they blatantly rip off V for Vendetta with the scenes where Beatty is talking to the ministry. Overall, this movie is just a huge waste of an adaptation. don't really know what i expected though.

Best part was the beautiful flocks of birds at the end. Which had nothing to do with the original book or film.

If I could insert the "ironic" meme that uses Palpatine from the Star Wars prequels, I would. Ray Bradbury's classic book was about how media dumbs down the populace and how books were censored to keep people from thinking freely, which is exactly what the makers of this movie did. They dumbed down the themes of the source material and put them through the PC spin machine to create a film that exemplifies exactly what Bradbury warned about. It only got more than one star because of the great visuals and acting from Shannon.

Fahrenheit 451 is movie created after the dystopian novel with the same name of Ray Bradbury, which was published in 1953. The movie presents a future American society where books are forbidden and "firemen" burn any that are found. The title and a line from the movie explains everything: "Fahrenheit 451 - the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns." The main character is a fireman named Montag who becomes uneasy with the role of censoring works and destroying knowledge. He eventually quits his job and joins a resistance group who memorize books in order to preserve the world's greatest literary and cultural works. This rebel group encoded books into a bird's DNA. The movie's end is dramatic. The rebels hideout is discovered and Montag confronts Captain Beatty, the infamous leader of the "firemen". Montag releases the bird from a cage but pays the ultimate price for that and dies. Fahrenheit 451 is a classic of Sci-Fi genre. The book won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and the Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal. The film was nominated for a Hugo Award and for the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival.