Did me and my parents just watch back to back Wuthering Heights adaptations ? Yes.
This was the better of the two.
Although, of course, suffers from the inescapable only do half the book disease. This time at least crafts an actual standalone story from it. Funniest, and also actually most sensible, way to end the story of the three attempts I’ve seen too.
Suffers even worse from the finish the movie halfway through the book disease than the 1939 version does - ends up just not having a story at all.
Sometimes you come out of a sequel wondering if you actually ever liked the original. I came out of this wondering if I even like movies any more.
Significant number of the beats here felt chemically designed to infuriate me. Genuinely hated every second, might give it half a star.
If it sounds like a play and it looks like a play, oh but what’s this ! 30% of the bloated runtime is taken up by tracking shots of people walking between conversations? Well a play can’t do that, so this must be cinema. As you were.
