Historically inaccurate, rushed, and just completely missing the point

Rating: 1/10 (27 June 2020)

I've seen pretty much every Jane Austen adaptation out there and have read many, many books on the history of the writer and the era in which her books are placed.
The 2005 adaptation with Kiera Knightley is so ridden with inaccuracies that it's simply impossible to watch with any degree of serious attention.
It seems that the director was hell bend on making his film as different from the faithful, calm, and witty BBC 1995 adaptation rather than actually filming Pride and Prejudice.
The second main reason for me why the movie just doesn't work - and by that I mean nothing works, the dialogue, the editing, the costumes, the characterisation; it's all poor, poor, poor - is that there doesn't seem to be much by way of a plot.
If I wasn't familiar with the story, I'd struggle to follow. Mr Wickham appears and disappears, key events and people are reduced to mere sketches, or eliminated, lines are rushed, and I just couldn't settle into the story.
The characters are treated with the robustness that is not period accurate or even attractive or interesting. The dialogue, so witty, clever, and character appropriate in the book, here has been reduced to rough and unrecognisable expositions of the plot and character's feelings.
Charlotte's speech to Elizabeth: "Don't you dare judge me!" is an example of telling rather than showing disguised as showing. It tells us how we should feel without taking the trouble as to why that would be inappropriate and why it would hurt Elizabeth so much.
Overall, the story is not coherent. It seems cobbled from fragments of various other movies, and stories, but it completely misses the point of Pride and Prejudice, the book.
Key characters that expose Elizabeth to her own feelings, and her journey to maturity and true understanding is just not here. In which case, what is the point of the story. A washed down, weak love story.
The social rules of conduct that guided the behaviour of the people and which showed them up to other characters in the book and to us as readers, are ignored.
The book is shrewdly written social subtle satire full of totally on point observations on human nature.
There are some pretty scenes, dinners with candles.
No lady would walk in the rain as Elizabeth seems to after the church conversation and during which Mr Darcy proposes.
Mr Darcy: "Are you laughing at me?" - No, but I am at this pathetic adaption of one of the best stories in the history of literature.
This adaptation is just badly made and by ignoring the very point of the story - the journey of Elizabeth and Darcy to each other in the environment fraught with challenges, both internal and external - it rendered itself pointless.