Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Justina The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Veronica Praecox It is a real art if the director together with actors are able to father a agreeable show based on a trivial story. In the middle of the movie, we realize the half of the time is gone, but nothing still happened. The team was able to create the tension so appealing that we are absorbed, even without any grandiose plot and without any impassioned actions. The second half of the movie is filled by actions more moving, obviously very well known due to its literal master. There is a touch of misfortune, a typical British frightening countryside serves as a suitable background. All necessary components for a romantic novel are present. As an interpreting of J. Austen, the movie plays with many internal thoughts belonging to people within a romantic tradition of the end of 18th century. It seems these conversational games can last forever, never mind what's going on anywhere else. Evident, but quite pleasant case of escapism. The whole movie is a nice adventure, but with a touch of honesty, it is also a bit waste of time.

jotix100 Catherine Morland, the heroine of Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey", has a lot in common with the young women at the center of the author's literary work. This novel is, perhaps, not as well known as the others she wrote. But in a way, it is a treasure, nevertheless. The abridged version of the series seen on England's ITV channel, makes perfect sense, although many Austen purist might feel it is not so. Any viewer not familiar with the novel, will probably be delighted in what comes in this sunny adaptation.Young Catherine Morland is asked by her wealthy neighbors, the Allens, to accompany them to Bath, which at the time was the place to be for the English society of that time. Bath was a great place to be for young people ready to go into the kind of social life that was so prevalent in the city. The refinement of Bath attracted all kinds of marriageable candidates.Catherine was not a sophisticated girl at the time. She had a vivid imagination, made more so, after reading the Gothic literature of the time. It only took a meeting with the handsome clergyman, Henry Tilney, for her to fall in love with him. Catherine also attracts the attention of a social climber, Isabella Thorpe and her brother John. Isabella, who was being courted by Catherine's brother, catch the attention of Henry's father, Captain Tilney, a fastidious man, telling how Catherine stands to inherit the Allen fortune, something that is music to his ears because of his great ambition to marry his children well. Catherine is set as a target for his schemes.This production was directed by Jon Jones, as adapted from the original novel by Andrew Davies. The Austen's themes about life among the rich classes and the clash between good and evil, are well in place in this handsomely photographed film. Ciaran Tanham gets the essence of what it must have been like in Bath and in the Abbey, as well as in the country where the action takes place.Felicity Jones does a splendid job in her portrayal of Catherine. She is an interesting actress that shows intelligence in all her appearances. J.J. Feild, who plays Henry, is also good in the way he perceived his character. The excellent Carey Mulligan makes an impression with her Isabella. Liam Cunningham is marvelous as Capt. Tilney. The large supporting cast does well for Mr. Jones.Recommended for people that might have wanted to know a little bit more about Jane Austen, but had not been exposed to her books.

ThatDoesntMatter I did not watch this completely. I could not bear it. Everything was wrong.At first I thought: Interesting take on Henry Tilney, make him a little more ...glib, I think, fits.But then I found it false and implausible - bad acting did not help.Mrs Allen is too sweet. Missed the chance for authentic portrayal - she is a superficial, self-centered, nice enough simpleton, such a great foundation for caricature (Jane Austen was a genius at that!) Mr Allen too wordy in general.Isabella is FAR TOO NICE. She is supposed to be chatty, self-centered in a bad way, befriending Catherine with her own motives in mind.John Thorpe - completely wrong - oh my...another chance of caricature (and fun!!!) lost.Seems to be they just took the script from the 1986 version and juiced it up a bit (not that I watched that one through...life is short, and at least I want to decide what I waste it on - not this!!!) - a Roman bath scene??? Hello??? lol Catherine - oh Catherine. I love Catherine,naive and simple as she might be. Here she flirts, pouts and suffers from hormonal overflow - yucky! That they used a voice over with verbatim parts from the novel makes this even more ---- HORRID!!!:-) As has been stated here: If you don't do Jane Austen to the book, leave it! (Or take better script writers, actors and directors - I'm not adverse to interesting adaptations - like Clueless for Emma - but this is unnecessary drab)

snowyegret First things first. Northanger Abbey was my least favorite of Jane Austen's novels and there is probably no way to turn it into a film masterpiece. Compared to those in her other books, the characters aren't nuanced (believably) and the story isn't especially interesting. But still, it is Jane Austen and even bad Jane Austen should be better than this. I am also surprised that BBC is putting out adaptations with impossibly short running times like this (also the 07 Persuasion). There isn't enough time to develop characters and relationships which is pretty much the essence of Jane Austen's books. And then comes the casting of Northanger Abbey, with a way-too-beautiful actress playing Catherine and a way-too-creepy portrayal of John Thorpe. So even though I wanted to like this movie, it was pretty much doomed from the start. As far as the actual production went, I didn't think anything was particularly good or bad about the performances, cinematography, soundtrack, etc... It was just OK. Maybe with another hour or so, the producers could have made it work.