The Not-so-Jane-Austen version

Rating: 4/10 (3 August 2009)

When I first saw that Kiera Knightly was slated to play Elizabeth, I was already unimpressed. I'm not saying I completely dislike this young actress, but she is not the right girl to play a very strong female character.
From the beginning, the movie flows fairly well--as well as it could with awfully stilted acting.
The colors seem a little odd as though the film is trying to display the same lighting techniques used in paintings of the period. This gives it a soft and very romantic feel, but ultimately help to mute the real impact "Pride and Prejudice," as Jane Austen wrote it, gives.
People who tell you this is like the book have clearly never read it. If you want to see a more accurate rendition of "Pride and Prejudice" watch the BBC version with Colin Firth (awesome mini series!).
I must say the music is wonderful. If you like to watch movies for lovely colors and great music then I guess this is it! Really though it was a pretty terrible attempt at making a Jane Austen novel into a movie. Historically inaccurate, frumpy hair styles rather than the Grecian styles of the period, very stilted if not outright bad acting, untrue to the classic novel.
If you're just looking for a good looking guy to come walking romantically through a field in the early morning light...well this does deliver on that. More Jude Deveraux than Jane Austen.