SunnyHello Nice effects though.

Pluskylang Great Film overall

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

olgaipatova This is certainly the second worst Austen adaptation (the absolute worst being Mansfield Park with toothy bare-chest hair-down whatshername playing Fanny). The casting is not just not right, it is simply opposite to the book characterisation starting from peaches-and-cream Wentworth (and the man is supposed to be a seasoned naval officer!) and straight down to Anne who looks like she is mentally challenged. Probably only Mr Elliot was right, due to which in the end I started rooting for him. The script is no less awful. I guess the circus scene have been grilled enough before me, so I will go straight to the IMPOSSIBLE ending - Wentworth could not never ever buy the estate because it could not be sold! It was entailed and the fact is essencial for the plot. If Sir Walter could sell he would have done so long before, and the story would be totally different. So why put in this illogical invention? Wasn't the lovers' reunion not good enough?

okatenda As one who loves watching any adaptation of a Jane Austen novel, I must say i enjoyed watching this movie. I have one single complaint, i found myself growing increasingly annoyed with the character of Anne, portrayed by Sally Hawkins. The thing i love most about Jane Austen's lead female characters is that they are usually free spirited women with strong characters who exhibit intelligence and confidence, unlike other females characters in her novels. However, Anne shows none of these traits, instead she appears to be confused, constantly our of breath and mopey. She goes through most of the movie feeling sorry for herself and being led by other people. It made it hard for me to like her or even care about her. There was nothing to distinguish her from the other females in the movie or to convince us why Wentworth loved her above all for as long as he did.As for Wentworth, he seemed more like a pretty boy than anything I would have liked to see more depth to his character.

speedo58 Rupert Penry-Jones's Captain Wentworth behaved as a military man would be expected to behave. He is intelligent, disciplined, decisive, ego-driven. We aren't given histrionic acting, but a performance where a slight widening of the eyes, twitching of a jaw muscle, a gaze held a little long, convey what we need to know about Captain Wentworth's inner thoughts. His blondness contrasts with the darker coloring of the other young males and lends him a golden air. I think Penry-Jones is a fine actor, and found it sad that he writes in his quotes on his profile that "I've worked for years to get the career I have now, so to find I need a break is quite disappointing!". He has won two acting awards to date and he has several projects in the works, so I hope that he has received the break he wished for.Some see Persuasion as a book of a revenant made human, others as a second chance at love in a time of social change. If I had written the explanation of how Anne's home became Captain Wentworth's wedding gift to her, Sir Walter would have been totally bankrupt and forced to sell, William Elliot so disgraced that he renounced his entailment, and the duplicitous Mrs. Clay out of the Elliot's life forever.

Lily-32 I think it very telling that so many people, without having discussed it first, had the same reaction to the long awaited "kiss" at the end of the film. She looked like a fish. A gasping, dying fish. Yeah, I get that she ran all over town (still not sure why they played it that way) but come ON! That had to be the worst on screen kiss in the history of kisses. The only reason I didn't give this movie a single star is because of the guy who played Frederick. He was easy on the eyes and not a horrible actor. But even he wasn't enough to get me to ever watch this travesty again. I'm a romantic and I've seen my share of climax of the story kisses and this . . . this deserves to be buried and forgotten.And that constant creepy stare at the camera didn't help anything either.