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I usually don't go for the "chick flicks" but the girl in me will crave a good romantic story once in awhile. For instance I saw Pride & Prejudice for the first time a few months ago and loved it. What girl doesn't love a good story of classic old school romance where there is actual wooing involved.

There was a lot of buzz around this movie when it came out. So it was only natural that I added it on my Netflix list and last weekend it made it's way into my mailbox (along with Goodfella's and Get Smart).

I won't deny that this movie was gorgeous to watch. I loved the colors (like Keira's gorgeous green gown) and the general tone of this movie. The camera movements were fantastic and if you can say that camera movements can be romantic, in this case it absolutely was. Everything was really soft and the dialogue and movements were just soft spoken. So in all you have the perfect formula for a romantic movie.

In the first half it kinda was. Cecelia (played by Keira Knightley) goes to school with her housemaid's son Robbie (played by James McAvoy) who I think Cecelia's father took under his wing and became the caretaker of. I think I heard that he was going to pay for his tuition to medical school, but I'm not a 100% on that.

Through a series of very unfortunate and grave misunderstandings, Cecelia's little sister, Briony, ends up accusing Robbie of assaulting her cousin. This is the first part of the movie, and the only part that has actual movement.

SPOILER ALERT!
After the incident absolutely nothing happens, until the end. Rest of the movie is filled with fluff just so they could have a feature length film. They killed time. None of the characters talk of what happened. We see them all separately going through life. Robbie as a soldier trying to get home. Briony training to be a nurse because she's hoping to see Robbie and maybe save him so he can forgive her. BUT THAT'S IT!

They do mention the characters again, when Briony becomes an author and writes a book on the accounts of her accusing her sister's lover. She writes of an ending in the book where her sister and Robbie end up together but that never took place, because they both died during the war.

I was left feeling incredibly shorthanded. The movie was better as a trailer.