United States, United Kingdom · 2016
1h 48m
Director Burr Steers
Starring Lily James, Sam Riley, Jack Huston, Bella Heathcote
Genre Romance, Horror, Comedy, Thriller
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A zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in this reimagining of Jane Austen's classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in 19th century England. Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is a master of martial arts and weaponry and the handsome Mr. Darcy is a fierce zombie killer, yet the epitome of upper class prejudice. As the zombie outbreak intensifies, they must swallow their pride and join forces on the blood-soaked battlefield in order to conquer the undead once and for all.
Tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt substantial audiences, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is in fact a moderately entertaining film, not deficient in old-fashioned costume drama when it pleases, nor in the power of being clever where it chooses, but awkward and unsatisfying.
Entertainment Weekly by Clark Collis
The result should appeal to Austen aficionados and horror hounds alike—which is not a sentence you get to write too often.
This movie is so crushing mainly because it was made by obviously smart people who are trying to dumb themselves down, and there’s nothing more excruciating than that.
What is most impressive about the final film, adapted for the screen and directed by Burr Steers, is that it gets the Pride and Prejudice side of things right, and that's what matters most.
The Hollywood Reporter by Keith Uhlich
Lumbering, lifeless, and—strange thing to say about a cadaver—almost entirely charmless. Almost entirely because both Lily James, as headstrong heroine Elizabeth Bennet, and Sam Riley, as her brooding suitor Mr. Darcy, make for a delightful onscreen pair.
New Orleans Times-Picayune by Mike Scott
To put it in Austen terms: They will not have the pleasure of understanding what Steers is trying to do here.
The premise promised Regency class and Romero shocks. The results, though, are only intermittently entertaining, and a better adaptation of Austen than a monster mash.
Slant Magazine by Richard Scott Larson
The juxtaposition of courtship and violence is the film's one true coup, but Pride and Prejudice and Zombies still mistakes weaponry for agency.
New York Daily News by Stephen Whitty
There's noise and movement, an all-out war, and the usual happy ending, but no real blood, no real life. And not much fun.
Time Out London by Tom Huddleston
The result is an odd, inconsequential but not entirely charmless misfire: an action-horror-comedy-romance with none of the first two and precious little of the third.
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