Pride and Prejudice and Zombies could have made for a far better big screen adaptation, but what Steers winds up with is entertaining enough. At one point, we also get something that looks like a tacky Instagram vignette that doesn’t enhance the moment and is so glaringly obvious that it winds up taking you out of the movie. There are a number of noticeably dark scenes and a handful of others that are shot in a way that makes it nearly impossible to track the action and fight choreography. Trouble is, strong special effects make-up, production design and costume design isn’t going to do much for a movie that is so poorly lit.
The film barely scratches the surface of the idea that, in this zombie outbreak, the infected can retain some of their human personality, but the zombie design is on-point and does what it can to highlight that concept while also throwing in some traditional gore. PPZ is also a bit of a technical disappointment. Why? Perhaps there was more to their involvement that wound up on the cutting room floor, but in the final version of the film, their presence adds nothing to the story beyond a few haunting visuals. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies the movie also adds The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Perhaps more screen time for Lydia Bennet ( Ellie Bamber) and for Wickham and Darcy’s ( Sam Riley) history could have helped, but it still seems as though all the character development in the world couldn’t have filled the gaping holes in this portion of the movie. Wickham, you’d expect the screenwriters to give the role a boost, but this particular book-to-screen change is overly complicated and isn’t nearly as memorable as where the character winds up in the book. When you cast a guy like Jack Huston as Mr.
The book never explains why the outbreak begins or how the disease is progressing, but the movie attempts to do so and while that does lend itself to a stunning opening credit sequence, it also winds up taking a good deal of time away from some much-needed character development and leaves the film ridden with plot holes, too. The most glaring problem with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is that the villains’ intentions make little to no sense.
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