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I won't repeat unnecessarily what a few other reviewers have said already, i.e. that the 1945 film was much better.
What I will add is that this version is very much of its time, in that the need was felt to emasculate the leading male character so comprehensively. Impotent (in every sense, not to mention subject to a typically tasteless scene involving garden shears), talentless, spineless and ultimately killed off for no particular reason other than to allow for a ridiculous Thelma & Louise ending; he is clearly the everyman of today.
I've seen a couple of reviews that criticise Dan Stevens's performance - not so much about Leslie Mann's woodenness, nor Isla Fisher's trans-oceanic accent - but I'm not sure what any actor could have done with a role that had been so effectively cut off at the...erm... legs by the painfully thorough gender bias of this adaptation. My only surprise was that Charles wasn't delivered into the path of the car by a roundhouse kick at the end.
To paraphrase the author (in reverse): no heart; just sad.
score 1/10
andyswan-11426 18 January 2021
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