Soiled

Rating: 1/10 (18 June 2006)

This movie was quite possibly the worst adaptation. It left out so much of the wonderful Jane Austen-esquire soul of the book. The director and screenplay writer destroyed the plot and hired a mediocre actress, one Keira Knightley to play the heroine. Certain characters who play significant roles are downplayed and key plot occurrences are kept out of the film. There is no excuse for this, as the movie was only 2 hours and 8 minutes (approx.) but it still was too long. The ending happens to be extremely lame, from the time Darcy walks through the field in the morning until the last "Mrs. Darcy." I am utterly and hopelessly romantic, and I found this ridiculous, not even romantic, just lame and horribly cliché. As an Austen Loyalist, I say the work is amateurish and completely leaves the book in the mud, soiling Austen's masterpiece.