They killed the wit

Rating: 5/10 (22 February 2007)

I could put up with the hurried storyline - it's an adaptation, it requires changes, alright. I could put up with the rather poor acting. (Giggling Elizabeth, dull-witted Bingley or Darcy for that matter, etc. although there were a few exceptions.) But where is the wit gone ? Joe Wright seems to have tried to make a romantic love-story, and I suppose it is as good a goal as any, but then I do not think Pride&Prejudice was good material. Its plot is, after all, quite predictable. What makes the book so delightful is, I think, Austen's wit, which is completely lacking here. Without it, the too-perfect heroine became quite irritating, and the film utterly boring. (Having said that, I hope that not many think as I do; I doubt I would have really tried and read Austen's books had I seen this film before reading any of them.)