Truly Dreadful Film

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

I haven't read Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice and I've never had the urge to. I read Sense and Sensibility and it wasn't my cup of tea. So, I turned this on with the hope that having a more contemporary element would make a story that clearly wasn't written for me, easier to sit through. I'm happy to report that it did and a large part of that was the humour that they incorporated into the narrative. Maybe other people saw it differently, but it just made me smile to watch people in this elaborate gowns and debonair dress slicing and dicing the undead. They establish the mythology (which was tightly written enough to satisfy me) and while they follow the beats of the original story, the zombie fighting is squeezed in and it works better than I thought it would have. It wasn't perfect, but I thought it was a pleasant surprise.So, while this movie departs from the classic story, my problems with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies don't have anything to do with those changes. The most noticeable flaw with this project is the sub-par effects and makeup. The budget on this is relatively low at $28 million (which was good considering how few people saw this in theatres) and unfortunately it shows. The costuming is good but with so many competing zombie TV shows (The Walking Dead) and movies (Zombieland) doing zombies so much better, it makes P&P&Z look even worse by comparison. I was also disappointed that the ending fizzled out. This could be blamed on the source material, but I don't see how. There's a considerable buildup with the rivalry between Mr. Darcy (Sam Riley) and George Wickham (Jack Huston) and the movie seems to be preparing you for a bad@$$ zombie fight. But there's almost nothing when the resolution hits and while I can appreciate a credit stinger that seems to set things up for a sequel, I wanted more.Through the positives and the negatives, the big thing that this movie brought to my attention was how talented Lily James is. I had seen her in supporting parts in Baby Driver, Darkest Hour and the Exception (Downtown Abbey isn't my thing) but she's the lead heroine here as Elizabeth Bennet and she knocks it out of the park. She anchors this movie capably and I don't know if this movie would have worked without her. She's turning into a performer that I would tune into a show or movie I didn't know about just because of her involvement. I largely liked the rest of the cast, but I also want to credit Matt Smith as the Bennet's wimpy cousin Parson Collins. I'm not familiar with him as an actor but he had me laughing in almost every scene he appeared in. This is a movie full of strong characters and Parson is conversely so pathetic that it becomes easy to mine laughs out of him being such a tool. I also enjoyed Bella Heathcote, Charles Dance, Jack Huston and Lena Headey in their supporting parts.I can understand die hard fans of Pride and Prejudice turning their nose up to this. But I'm not in that camp and this movie made the Pride and Prejudice story palatable for me. I liked the tongue-in-cheek humour, how they decided to work in the zombie elements in and the movie boasts a dynamic lead performance from Lily James. Is it a landmark in screenwriting? Absolutely not but I did enjoy this movie from beginning to end. My true rating for this would be a 7.5/10 but I'll round up to 8/10. I would recommend this to people looking for an interesting mashup of genres, but I would also warn you ahead of time, if you're a fan of the classic novel, this film probably will seem like blasphemy.

Movie Review: "Pride & Prejudice and Zombies" (2016)Carefully put into Sony Pictures' affiliated branch Screen Gems, a company constantly re-inventing itself since 1933 with mainly daring close to b-roll horror, science-fiction and daring comedy films since enterprising resurrection from December 8th 1998, rarely exceeding production bugdets of 35-Million-Dollar, nevertheless have fairly-expensive genre hits as the "Resident Evil" movie series starring Milla Jovovich under their rooster; here comes along this utterly re-interpretation of a Jane Austen classic love story book, firstly published in 1813, ingnited by film-maker Burr Steers, who had been nourishing industry connections since being part of "A Band Apart" production team days of Quentin Tarantino & Lawrence Bender realizing "Pulp Fiction" in season 1993/1994; a writer/director fulfills his dream of a genre-borderlining motion picture with a capable cast surrounding actors Sam Riley and Lily James as world-literature-inhabited famous soon-to-be fighting and coupling Mr. Darcy & Mrs. Bennett, while here so many obstacles are pushed to PG-13 timid endeavors of killing zombie creatures with no major red blood leaking wounds given, which might have saved the picture from a total brain-numbing experience of sweet-to-look at supplementary cast including short-passed actresses Bella Heathcote, Ellie Bamber, Millie Brady and Suki Waterhouse as samurai sword to short daggers swinging heroines to forget as soon as the curtain calls.FAZIT: Picture rejected (unprepared) © 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

I had very low expectations before I see this film, mainly because of the raving bad reviews, 5.7/10 puts this movie in between bad and horrible. When I was watching it, I kept expecting the movie turn bad or boring ... never did, I mean, it is not Oscar worthy, but fairly entertaining and at times convincing. The visuals are beautiful, action sequence decent, even dialogue was made in "Pride and Prejudice" fashion ... I really don't understand where such low rating comes from. This makes me wonder how many of the reviewers have actually seen the film. IMO truly one downside of this internet age is everyone just blindly follows everyone else. No one seems to have his own opinion, or it is subject to be influenced easily at any given time.

I didn't have high hopes going into this movie but the concept seemed very interesting. I must say it was entertaining. The love story aspect of it could have been better but the overall story was good. The zombies were well done, not cheesy at all. What's better then Victorian style dressed woman killing zombies with swords.