SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Infamousta brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

gunes bayir This movie could be better, although second half compensates. It's a little puzzling in the beginning, since there were many characters, and relations between them are not reflected enough in detail. Those scenes might have been slightly longer to grab the viewer, I think. Comparably, second half is thrilling, with less and focused characters.Lefroy (James McAvoy)'s acting is very good. He knows how to show the emotion he likes like he did in Split. For Anne Hathaway, I watched her many times, and this is not the best of her.In overall, this is a good summary of how Jane Austen came up with Pride and Prejudice.

Hager Ahmed I can't say that I actually know much about Jane Austen, but I know quite well that she was an honorable English novelist that has left a great mark, and that's why I was expecting much more than what I've experienced in the movie. A movie about such a great writer, I think, should be more dramatic, sophisticated and elegant. There is no enough emotion or monologue in the movie to get the viewer into the character as in any other touching biography. In contrary, the movie is a kind of prosaic for me and humorous in a bad way. It would have been better if it was more deep and sentimental as for an admired writer. Personally I don't think that this is an appropriate biography for a remarkable writer; it did not enrich me, and sadly the movie is just light, tasteless, superficial and a kind of disappointment.

zhongzl-kelley2014 I'm glad I didn't watch the movie with some sarcastic companion mumbling about the how it's distanced from the history, or how the lines and costumes in there are anachronistic, because not all of the audience are professionals, inspecting the movie with their pedantic X-rays. There are kids assigned to watch the movie because the teachers want them to be interested in the classic author, there are couples borrowing the DVD because they want to watch something romantic at their date. Honestly, most of the audience open their laptops, expecting a good story. If some ossified dusted scholars want some historical truth, they go to the BBC. So I'm perfectly satisfied with this brilliant piece of work, it's got twists in the plot, fervent love between two sexy intellectuals that make you sign with pleasure, and the demonstration of Jane Austin's admirable character dominated by ration, moral and firm faith in love. It's definitely the movie to go if you are teaching your child what kind of lady you want her to be, instead of Hanna Montana or Mean Girls.I've read the original version of P&P, it was a sheer torture for a 15-years-old teenager, but when I precede and encounter Mr.Darcy between Jane's gentle touch of pen, I became obsessed with it. I flung two subjects in the semester exam because I was at the part when Elizabeth was confessing her poignant misunderstandings towards poor Mr. Darcy, my heart writhed in pain because Mr.Darcy was what sensible girls always dream of :handsome, intellectually equal with Elizabeth and has a HUGE CASTLE. But it makes the departure of Tom devastating to watch, because the audience and sense the wistful romance in P&P when Jane was torn apart from her man in so disappointing a manner. I can perfectly understand the authors that fulfill the holes in their lives with happy endings, because that's where fancy originated from. In this light, the movie makes perfect sense, because every quality Elizabeth Bennet exhibited, Jane perfectly embodied them, and every thing Jane yearned for, Elizabeth had them eventually. I will not judge the acting, because it brings out the softest and most beautiful part of my nature. I'll not judge the camera angles, because it's flexible and smooth like the eyes of god. I can't judge the script either, because it doesn't abuse a syllable. If Anne Hathaway is more linear to Jane's appearance, this movie totally deserves a ten.

FlossieCat As ever the old adage holds true. No matter how good the cast a film will fail if the script is weak. This was. Despite a stellar cast (and one of the great Ian Richardson's last appearances). This was not so much a biopic as a drama constructed from various scenes from Austen's novels. Yes, the lady wrote from life, from her own intimate world but she observed acutely. Of course her characters are based on people she met, knew, or watched but to flagrantly take scenes from her novels and imply these were events in her life takes things just too far.And how on earth could they shoot a film about Austen entirely in Ireland? Where was Bath? Austen lived there for five years and her father is buried there!