Beautiful but disappointing film

Rating: 3/10 (12 January 2008)

Fantastic cinematography, but that was the slowest, most pointless movie I have ever seen. There was potential to go SOMEWHERE, but the direction was horrible and the acting was unnatural. The ending was completely disappointing, and the film had no character development AT ALL (with the possible exception of Briony.
Beautiful movie, but I would never watch it again. I certainly hope the book is better than this.
While the movie may be worthy of best cinematography, McAvoy and Knightley do NOT deserve acting awards. They can do better.
If you read the book and loved it, then I can understand. But as a person who's never read the book, this movie seemed like it destroyed whatever artistic merit the book had.