Poor

Rating: 3/10 (13 August 2006)

Absolutely terrible. I mean, if it were not based on a novel, it would have been pretty good, I suppose. There is pathos, the actors are pretty good - or at least, most of them are. I did not like Matthew Macfadyen at all, he looks like a Madame Tussaud's statue. He wears exactly the same expression on his face all the time. The others are OK, I suppose, but let us not forget that this film is supposed to follow the novel by Jane Austen. And it does not. Of course a film which lasts about two hours cannot bear every single scene, fact, character in the book. But the characters are not themselves. A real Jane cannot laugh all the time as if she were a stupid goose. A real Lizzie cannot look nor sound like a girl who only wants to flirt. Mr Darcy does not have the slightest trace of arrogance, Mr Bennet looks like a house-steward rather than a gentleman. As I said at the beginning, it would perhaps have been a good film if it were not based on a novel whose atmosphere it does not convey at all. I suggest Jane Austen's fans see the BBC edition (1995). You feel you are inside the book when you see it, for Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle are absolutely perfect, and so is the rest of the cast. Sorry for my English.