A beautiful opportunity wasted

Rating: 4/10 (25 January 2020)

This film had beautiful places to use, amazing actors, a good sound track and Juliet and Dawseys chemistry on film was great. they had and a story that was already written for them, and they completely botched most of the characters - Amelia was not that way, Juliet was more cautious and Reynolds was more of a jerk. Jane was Ebens daughter. I can't believe how much they got wrong. The characters were not welcoming. She didn't have to just arrive unannounced, And none of it seemed to be reasonably wrong for adaptation purposes. She didn't have to go back to London either - I wasn't expecting it to follow the story to a T - obviously a screenplay must be abridged but this is so frightfully unlike the story it does such an injustice and changes not only the events but more importantly the concepts of the characters and essence of the story. Considering how much I loved the actors previous works and what not this is very disappointing that the screenwriter and director And producers wouldn't attempt to handle a beautiful story with more care. They had such a good opportunity to make a good film. It's just sort of a hack job and I'd be upset with myself to destroy the very essence of the story if I were the adapter of it. This could easily have been done better