Bronte light

Rating: 1/10 (15 January 2006)

I finally got a chance to watch this latest version and I found it lacking in just about every category. The movie's gloomy, dark undertones didn't capture Austen's beautiful story nor does it compare favorably to the far superior BBC version starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth. I felt like I was watching Bronte light rather than anything remotely related to Pride and Prejudice. The producers behind this production should have been more honest and simply adapted one of the Bronte sister's works rather than butchering Austen's classic.
One of my biggest complaints is the decision to replace Austen's beautiful language for inferior dialog and modern terminology that sounded awkward and inappropriate. As far as the acting, while I liked Macfadyen's Darcy, I thought Knightly's Elizabeth was insipid and unappealing.