Great first half, not so great second half

Rating: 7/10 (11 February 2008)

I think this is a very good movie which starts out very strong and then weakens as soon as Macovoy character is sent to war. The movie is about a two people who are in love but are in different social classes and were a girl makes a mistake and sends an innocent man to war. OK lets start with the performances by the actors. Keria knightly's performance is OK, its not great, i think she performs better in the first half of the movie. She is not a great actor, i think she overacts and sometimes its not believable. James mcavoy does the most consistent acting and he has talent, especially in the scene were he confronts the girl who send him to war in which he breaks down.
I think the movie is very original in the first half of the movie, were there is like a flashback style which i really liked and also the background score was good with the typewriter music. The plot and story are good in the first half it goes at a nice pace and you get to know the characters. I kind of lost interest after the macvoy character is sent to war because it was very predictable in a sense that hes either gonna find his love or hes gonna die in war. It has been done better before and the keira knightly character was not really convincing.
All in all i though this movie was strong in the first half and did some original things good but then it lost it in the second half as if they lost the passion they had in the first half of the movie. The performances were all around good especially by the little girl and James macvoy but kera knhighty fails to be consistent. Good movie not great.