A waste of time

Rating: 1/10 (29 September 2005)

Keira Knightly (Elizabeth Bennet) cheesy smiled and giggled her way through whole movie. Although she was the best of a bad bunch she did not portray the Elizabeth Bennet of the Austin novel  never even came close.
Matthew MacFadyen would have been better cast as one of the un-dead in Land of the Dead movie as his acting was as wooden as a flesh eating zombie.
Simon Woods (Mr Bingley) with his crop of ginger hair and imbecilic smile. Did the makers of this movie really expect us to believe that a beautiful woman like Jane Bennet could ever fall in love with such a piece of quivering, stuttering jelly? Donald Sutherland (Mr Bennet) looked like he was one step away from insanity. I was half expecting to see him eat the dragon fly he was examining in his study.
Not only did Mr Bennet act like he was one step away from the mental institution two of his daughters giggled like half wits through the whole movie to thus convince me insanity ran in the family.
The 5th daughter looked so depressed throughout the movie I was half expecting the director to take liberties with the Austin novel and insert a scene where the rest of the family found her hanging from the rafters.
And Mr.Wickham? He was in the movie? Where? When? Apparently he was only given a cameo part to allow more time for the director to focus on bare butts of statutes in Darcy's home.
This movie was a torturous mess from beginning to end. Bring back Greer Garson and Lawrence Oliver.