What did I miss?

Rating: 3/10 (3 January 2019)

I was greatly looking forward to a humorous Regency romp, something to start off the new year with a bang, Instead it was something of a whimper. The characters were all so unrelentingly unsympathetic that I stopped caring who was going to triumph long before the end. So much of the "humour" was predicated on cruelty. And the writer's decision to make the script contemporary, for example by many usages of the 'c' word struck a jarring note rather than enabling the viewer to draw contemporary parallels. The film ended suddenly, as if the makers couldn't decide where to take it - and i was left wondering what the point of it was.