I'm not sure how a 2 hour movie can even make an attempt to equal or rival the 6 hr mini-series that the BBC did only a few short years ago (and introduced me to Colin Firth, in all of his hottie hottiness). Kiera Knightly can't match up to Jennifer Ehle if she tried. Have you seen the trailers for Domino? Baaaaaad.

Here's what one reviewer in the UK is saying....


http://www.mirror.co.uk/tvandfilm/a...-name_page.html

PRIDE & PREJUDICE
Cert U, 127 minutes SEE IT

It is a truth universally acknowledged that we just can’t get enough of Pride & Prejudice. Barely 10 years after Colin Firth emerged dripping from that lake in the much-loved BBC TV series, here we have the ninth screen version of Jane Austen’s classic novel – and I reckon this could be the best yet.

It’s hard to believe any of the others could trump this sumptuous period drama, for one reason – sex. Pure and simple. Lizzie Bennet and Mr Darcy don’t even lock lips this time around but you can almost reach out and touch the hormonal heat haze rising from their period costumes.

SMOULDERING: Darcy (Matthew Macfadyen) and Lizzie (Keira Knightley)

You probably know the plot, but here goes anyway. Lizzie is one of five sisters whose social-climbing mum (Brenda Blethyn) is desperate to marry them off to good stock. But headstrong Lizzie (Keira Knightley) is holding out for real romance. When she meets the snooty Darcy neither is impressed, but eventually... oh, we all know what happens next.

What could have been yet another stuffy costume drama works thanks to the decision to cast young actors who are same age as Austen’s characters. There are no stuffy RSC-types here. What we have are twentysomethings who inject fire and passion into a story that’s almost 200 years old.

This could also be the most erotic version ever made. I’m thinking of one scene where Lizzie’s given a tour of a collection of naked sculptures.

Forget Nine And A Half Weeks, the sexual charge here could send the National Grid into meltdown. It’s easy to forget that Austen’s 1813 novel was perhaps the original rom-com, setting the template for some of cinema’s greatest love stories, from Casablanca to Gone With The Wind to modern movie romance such as Titanic and Bridget Jones’s Diary – and this is right up there with them

Some critics in the past have taken cheap shots at Knightley’s acting, but this should shut them up once and for all.

SUPERB: A great period drama

And while Matthew Macfadyen isn’t the greatest Darcy you’ll ever see, it’s pretty hard to do much with such a priggish character – as Laurence Olivier admitted after starring in the 1940 version.

With supporting performances by Donald Sutherland, Dame Judi Dench and Rosamund Pike, this is a near-perfect period drama. Wonder what the next one will look like?

THE REEL LOWDOWN

BEST QUOTE: Lizzie to Darcy, “From the first moment I met you, your arrogance made me realise that you were the last man in the world I could ever marry.”

BEST BIT: Keira Knightley excels as the romance-seeking Lizzie.

WORST BIT: Macfadyen’s Darcy doesn’t measure up to Colin Firth in the mini-series.

IF YOU LIKED... Emma, Howards End... YOU’LL LIKE THIS.

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