Could Jane Austen be any more slap-dash?

Rating: 1/10 (8 November 2005)

I'm a huge fan of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice and was really looking forward to the remake. But what a slip-shod affair it turned out to be! Vital story lines excluded and improvised dialogues inserted at will, no continuity or factual correctness regarding the locations (does Joe Wright even know where Derbyshire is?) or the style of life back then (Bingley walking in on Jane IN BED?).
Kiera Knightley left me speechless at her complete lack of acting talent, especially alongside Judy Dench and Donald Sutherland. Rosamund Pike was also very well cast but those were the highlights of the film. There was little emotion, the whole discussion surrounding pride and prejudice was absent...Mr Darcy looked "vexed" but little more. Definitely NOT proud.
If the BBC does something, then they do it damn well. Why try to make a Hollywood rehash of it? Did Joe Wright even read the book beforehand? He certainly hasn't seemed to have understood it. All in all, an insult to British cultural heritage.