Rating of
3/4
Indyfreak - wrote on 07/13/17
Kate Beckinsale reminds everyone that she's a good actress aside from being tough-as-nails in this meandering but well made period romance. Based off a Jane Austen work no less, it's the type of movie you don't see made that much anymore even among the Brits. The movie clocks at only 93 minutes and the script moves fast.
It only really has a plot when cast member Tom Bennett shows up as the foppish dandy Sir James whose presence ruins all the burgeoning love stories in the first act. He's hysterically stupid that he nearly steals the movie.
The story goes in unexpected directions and unlike a lot of these types of films, it has a wicked sense of humor.
