Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)
Rated PG-13
Starring Lily James, Bella Heathcote, Matt Smith, Sam Riley, Jack Huston, Douglas Booth
Written and Directed by Burr Steers
The Story:
What's the best way to describe the story? What if you took the writings of Jane Austen, and decided to frame them around a deadly zombie outbreak?
Why yes, that would probably do it.
So all of the players are on the board, they just have to survive the zombie hordes if they hope to make it to the altar alive.
Good, but not great.
That's about the easiest way for me to sum up my reaction to the film.
They made a beautiful period piece, and they intersperse the zombie apocalypse in there pretty well.
However, the film just sort of drags along with fits of brilliance interrupting periods of dullness.
So yes, a typical Jane Austen work.
:)
I don't know, perhaps they played it too straight, but there is no sense of fun or impending dread, two things that often set the best zombie movies apart from the lumbering pack.
Who knows, maybe I was just tired while I was watching, but I often found myself starting to drift when the cast wasn't in peril.
That said, Lily James certainly carries this film on her shoulders in a way she was unable to do with the extremely boring Cinderella remake.
Final Grade: C+
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