Becoming Jane Review

Overall 4.20 of 5 view all 10 reviews

wind5001
Louisville, KY

Poor plot, always going for the simple solution...

a frequent film-goer, into movies that tell a great story, DVD collector, a fan of clever plots

Pros

Ann Hathaway, Beautiful scenery and costumes

Cons

A little on the long side, boring, always going for cheap solutions

NOV

2007

Becoming Jane —

This movie was advertised to me as a chick movie...in my eyes, that is an insult to any woman. The film was pretty boring and the story was always easy to guess at and the plot took not a single adventurous or surprising turn. The makers tried to squeeze information from Jane Austen's books into this film about her life and it seemed very artificial at many times. True, the costumes were nice, but that was about it. There would have been so many possibilities to make this movie about this extraordinary woman an interesting and also entertaining movie. IT seems the producers and director were not interested in that and thought that nice costumes and Ann Hathaway would be enough...what a folly!