Jumping on the zombie bandwagon, Burr Steer bets heavily on the popularity of Seth Grahame-Smith's quirky novel "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies." Perhaps, as a desperate attempt to interest people in Jane Austen's classic story of 19th century love tirades, Grahame-Smith creates a world in which the British aristocracy are all trained in Martial Arts, Zombies talk and have some debate about the merits of eating live humans over pig brains, and that Lena Headey is still rather fetching with a plucked out eye. Sadly, zombies do not save the viewer from an absolute mediocre and downright boring film.
Without delving too much into the plot line, the main story consists of a group of young well to do's, forced into what boils down to a tale of class warfare. Sam Riley, Lily James, and Jack Huston form the center of this group and end up in a rather blaze love triangle (nobody has sex in this film). Both men are rivals, from noble families, who have a sordid past of betrayal and anger towards each other, and end up fighting for the favour of the same woman, Elizabeth Bennet (James). Unfortunately the plot centers far too much on this inane romance, which never really feels real throughout the whole film.
If you know the original, then you know who she chooses in the end, but this film made an absolute mistake buy trying for a cliff-hanger ending. I won't tell you what it is, but how on earth do they plan on continuing this disgraceful film is beyond me. The zombies themselves are quite talkative for the living dead. I didn't understand why, if they were of reasonable nature and capable of rational thought, that they would not work TOGETHER with society in order to treat or subdue their disease. It seems feasible enough to the viewer that if the zombies crave human flesh, but can sustain by eating pig brains, then there isn't really any reason to go to war against the human population. I understood the context of the elite rich humans vs. the poor and disenfranchised zombies, but honestly it was a pretty thin analogy for class warfare.
Overall, this film is pointless and utterly missable . Zombies can't save this story unfortunately, and it certainly didn't save this film from being a box office bomb.
Without delving too much into the plot line, the main story consists of a group of young well to do's, forced into what boils down to a tale of class warfare. Sam Riley, Lily James, and Jack Huston form the center of this group and end up in a rather blaze love triangle (nobody has sex in this film). Both men are rivals, from noble families, who have a sordid past of betrayal and anger towards each other, and end up fighting for the favour of the same woman, Elizabeth Bennet (James). Unfortunately the plot centers far too much on this inane romance, which never really feels real throughout the whole film.
If you know the original, then you know who she chooses in the end, but this film made an absolute mistake buy trying for a cliff-hanger ending. I won't tell you what it is, but how on earth do they plan on continuing this disgraceful film is beyond me. The zombies themselves are quite talkative for the living dead. I didn't understand why, if they were of reasonable nature and capable of rational thought, that they would not work TOGETHER with society in order to treat or subdue their disease. It seems feasible enough to the viewer that if the zombies crave human flesh, but can sustain by eating pig brains, then there isn't really any reason to go to war against the human population. I understood the context of the elite rich humans vs. the poor and disenfranchised zombies, but honestly it was a pretty thin analogy for class warfare.
Overall, this film is pointless and utterly missable . Zombies can't save this story unfortunately, and it certainly didn't save this film from being a box office bomb.