A better film than your reviewer thinks

Rating: 9/10 (16 September 2005)

Although the reviewer is right that there is not enough time to convey all the nuances of a novel in a film, that is the same for most adaptations. Forget the Colin Firth version. Keira Knightley is excellent as Elizabeth, Matthew MacFadyen does what he can with an underwritten part. His amount of screen time just doesn't give him the chance to convey everything from the book. The rest of the cast are also good. The audience at the cinema I was in laughed out loud on numerous occasions, so there is humour there. All in all I thoroughly enjoyed it. See this film as it is: a stand alone adaptation of a great novel. It hasn't the depth of the original book, or the time to develop the story fully like a TV series, but makes for an entertaining evening out.