Kiera's acting suppressed by underdeveloped characters and those over-sized wigs

Rating: 4/10 (18 October 2011)

Poor Kiera, why did she agree to do a film like this? I have learned not to ever judge a book by its cover, the same with films; just because a poster makes the movie look intriguing, doesn't mean that it actually is.
This film started off really well, i was intrigued as Kiera's character was hit again and again with the horrid acts of her husband the Duke, played by Ralph Finnes. Horrible character, just awful.
I thought the film was leading somewhere and to the point where he cheated on the Duchess for Bess i thought something dramatic was waiting in the ranks but.....no.
Disappointing that a film leads your imagine places and pops questions in your head like: i wonder what she might do? What happens next? Will he/she get killed? Tension is artistically woven through but then the result is hardly worth watching.
But again nothing. The complication morphed into the resolution, why watch a film even if it is a true story if the ending is the Duchess staying with a perfectly horrid man that cheats on her and has stolen her best friend as his mistress. Pointless, next time i would much rather turn it off halfway through because nothing at all satisfactory happened.
Next time Keira choose your films wisely, maybe something that actually resolves itself?