Terrible

Rating: 5/10 (19 March 2006)

This movie is terrible. I was so bored I literally checked the DVD player every 5 minutes to see how much time was left until it was over. I always try to watch remakes without the original in mind, but this movie was so bad I couldn't stop thinking about it. I don't even know why I gave it 5. Sure, I guess it looked nice, but it was very uninteresting and choppy compared to the previous versions of Pride & Prejudice. First off, what's with the casting? Nobody fitted in their roles at all. And this isn't to say Lizzie was supposed to be ugly, but she certainly was not supposed to be the most beautiful--but I think Kiera looked the best out of all her sisters. Even so, she was NOT Lizzie. None of the girls looked right for the role. None of them had that classic look. They looked very much like modern girls to me stuck in the past. The scene where Lizzie and one of her sisters (can't remember which one) are under the bedcovers, it literally seemed like a movie set in the present because I couldn't see what they were wearing or what their hairstyle was. That's how unconvincing they were. Secondly, the acting was NOT good. Kiera Knightly did NOT deserve the Oscar nomination! I think she is a wonderful actress, but I don't think she was good in this movie at all. Her acting was blunt, boring, and dead. She did not breathe life into Lizzie's character at all and she was completely unconvincing. She did not capture Lizzie's personality whatsoever. And the scene where she was yelling, Lizzie would never do that. She is supposed to be witty and composed. Thirdly, it was so choppy I didn't know what the hell was going on. They should not have crammed the story into such a short period of time. It just doesn't work. Having seen the other two versions, this was by far the worst.