Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) - Watch Full Movie Online - HD 1080p

• Director: Burr Steers
• Writers: Burr Steers (screenplay), Jane Austen (Quirk Books novel)
• Stars: Lily James, Lena Headey, Douglas Booth

Movie Review:

It is a truth universally acknowledged that most people will do anything to make money. And really, who's at fault the editor at Quirk Books who first recommended to writer Seth Grahame-Smith (he of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter infamy) that there is great potential in mashing up Jane Austen's enduringly popular 19th-century novel Fulfillment and Prejudice with the living dead genre? Women must live, bottom level level lines should be fulfilled and the advancements of the moment must be exploited.

After the final item - titled Fulfillment and Prejudice and Zombies, and released in April 2009 - became a runaway best-seller, there appeared little stage in allowing out a Chris Crocker-esque "Keep Jane Austen alone!" But specifically exactly what will those many readers think about this long-delayed movie edition, which has experienced therefore many iterations (at highest accounts it had been to superstar Natalie Portman and be aimed by David O. Russell) it today resembles something of the reanimated corpse itself? Lumbering, lifeless and - unusual issue to state in regards to a cadaver - almost completely charmless.

Almost completely, because both Lily James, simply because headstrong heroine Elizabeth Bennet, and Sam Riley, simply because her brooding suitor Mr. Darcy, lead to a delightful onscreen set. And whenever they are able to perform Austen's comedy of manners direct (which is seldom), it's easy to get involved in the slow-build romance that's made many a reader swoon.

Unfortunately there's the matter of the brain-craving zombies the duo have to deal with in almost every scene. These ravenous stiffs have swarmed across 19th-century Britain and are now very close to bringing about the apocalypse. It should come as no surprise that Elizabeth's other potential beau, the manipulative Mr. Wickham (Jack Huston), is in large part responsible. Nor should it be a bombshell that the original book's sharp interpersonal satire makes for an awkward fit with the demands of a tale about gluttonous ghouls from beyond the grave.

To be fair, there's promise in even a one-joke premise like this. One of the few motivated ideas is usually turning the series where Elizabeth refuses Darcy's first relationship proposal into a literal brawl. It's excellent - though fleeting - fun viewing both people roundhouse-kick each other while speaking in bodice-era patois.

But screenwriter-director Burr Steers (Igby FALLS, Charlie St. Cloud) shows little affinity for the horror components, keeping the gore strictly PG-13 (decapitations and other such entrail-spilling events tend to happen tastefully offscreen, blunting any really transgressive influence) and proving extremely ineffectual at filming actions moments. There has to be a visceral charge in looking at Elizabeth and her sisters slo-mo strut their method through a high-culture ball with swords attracted, slicing down every zombie within their midst. However it has like a half-hearted riff on Buffy the Vampire Slayer's solely feminist archness: Ladies in corsets kicking undead ass … cool! Except not.