Everything good but the last scene

Rating: 7/10 (25 November 2005)

Everything about this movie was great, except the last scene. I thought the director did a great job of condensing the story into a movie by not trying tell Jane Austin's (the goddess of literature) detail through words but to tell it through images and feelings. For example, the gentrified but rural England was captured magically. However all the improtant dialogue was there, taken right from the book. The tension between Lizzie and Darcy and her realization of being in love worked great. Then the movie ended with a sappy scene not in the book that was totally out of character. When the movie was over I said to my wife "If Jane Austin saw that scene she would puke."