A bad adaptation

Rating: 3/10 (9 August 2013)

A shockingly bad adaptation. Given that I haven't read the book, but as is always the case with classics, 1 knows the story fairly well without ever having done that. The fault with the movie is mainly the direction, the book and the story has a certain vibe to it, a vibe that the movie tries to capture, but the tricky thing about vibes is that they are quite hard to create on screen, and even harder to maintain. 1 simply doesn't feel the flow of this movie, it tries, but scenes and the shots and the cutaways just don't line up as they should. Added to which the acting is very bad, yes it's true, despite the all star cast the acting is very bad. Everybody is bland and empty, it's like watching people recite lines, there are a few good scenes but most of it is dull. I'm keen to blame this on the director, clearly there was a sense of miscommunication somewhere. Or perhaps it was the sets that failed to pull them into character, they certainly failed to pull me into the movie.The whole thing looks like it was done in a sound stage with cheap CGI to fill in the cracks. In short, it's a bad adaptation of an interesting novel.