Extremely disappointing

Rating: 1/10 (8 March 2006)

I love the book and I love the fantastic mini-series (see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112130/) so I was very much looking forward to this film, especially with Keira being cast as Elizabeth.
So much potential and yet such an utter let down.
The film was heavy handed, full of fake smiles and screwed up noses from Keira that just grated. Bingley was absolutely horrendous - far too stupid and foppish. Worse still the story was distorted to such an extent that anyone who has read the book must wince and cringe. In fact at points I was quite angry at what I was seeing.
Trying to take the film in isolation and remove my disappointment at the terrible things they did to the story line, I think the term that best describes it is "over-acted". I was left wondering if this was supposed to be a comedy at times and to be honest it failed dismally as that too - somewhere in-between but not quite either.
Hugely disappointing for this Keira and Jane Austen fan.