[Nerwen]

I always found Boromir quite a sympathetic, if flawed, character– and I thought Sean Bean's portrayal captured him, or my idea of him, quite well, being in fact one of the best aspects of the film. I actually don't see any major discrepancy between the book and movie version– not compared to the treatment of certain other characters, anyway. (His immediate family members, now...well!)

But as for Boromir's death being "shocking"... well, no, not really. I thought his trying to take the Ring was the shocking part.