i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

Excellent, smart action film.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Persuasion (2007 TV Movie) is a BBC production directed by Adrian Shergold. Sally Hawkins plays Anne Elliott. (Yes, the same actor that we saw ten years later in The Shape of Water.) Eight years before the novel begins, Anne was in love with a young British naval officer--Frederick Wentworth portrayed by Rupert Penry-Jones.At the time, Anne was persuaded to reject Wentworth, because her father is a baronet and he was a penniless young man. Now he has returned as Captain Wentworth. He's rich because of booty won in the Napoleonic Wars. However, Anne and her family have fallen on hard times, because her father insists that, as a noble, he has to spend his money freely. The question raised by Austen is whether Anne can regain Wentworth's love.This is a 90-minute movie, not a miniseries. Naturally, the plot is pared down to its basics. However, this version definitely worked for me.The lead actors were superb, the supporting cast was excellent, and production values were high. We saw the film on DVD. It would surely work better on the large screen, because of the beautiful British scenery and the glorious costumes.This film has an excellent IMDb rating of 7.6. If you're a Jane Austen fan, you've probably seen it already. If you haven't seen it, it's a must. Even if you don't particularly like Jane Austen, I still highly recommend this movie. It's a gem--don't miss it.

That is a seriously terrible adaptation of the novel Jane Austen wrote. This adaptation has been written by someone who does not understand Jane Austen and what she writes, and just wishes to use her novel to produce nice romantic stories. This would not be so bad if her very words were not used throughout the movies, in a way completely, completely and again completely out of place. The expedient of making the characters loudly repeat excerpts of the book, without caring whether those parts were meant as inner reflections or as dialogues, shows no effort in understanding the novel. But what really bothered me, to the point that I had to give up watching the movie entirely, was that Anne makes her famous speech on men and women, the one that finally conquers again Captain Wentworth's heart, to someone else (Captain Benwick instead of Captain Harville) and in another occasion (in Lyme, at the first dinner they have all together)! And, of course, Captain Wentworth does not even hear the speech. But, hey, it's just the most important scene of the novel, what does it matter when it takes place? Seriously, the only merit of the movie is that there are really good actors (except for Rupert Penry-Jones, which does not know what he is doing, but I don't blame him entirely, for the direction assigned him terrible lines to act). The character of Captain Wentworth is not understood nor by the writers nor by the director of such movie. In short, like what happened in the novel and in the 1995's adaptation which is highly superior to this one, this movie irresistibly made me "take the pen and put down my sentiments", because it is really terrible to see. And a waste indeed, because with such great actors to play Anne, Sir Walter, Elizabeth, Mary, Lady Russell etc., and such lovely locations, this could have been a really good movie.

This adaptation of Persuasion was so-so in my mind. The music and cinematography was pretty well-done, but there were some issues in casting (I think). Sally Hawkins was altogether to flimsy and breathless for my taste. In the book, Anne Elliot is somewhat of a beautiful mix of a Lizzy Bennet and a Fanny Price. In this film, she was just . .. odd. And of no personal offense to her, the scene where she is crying over Wentworth's alleged engagement is awful! The sniffling and wiping is just too much. I think she lacked some of the "spunk" Anne is supposed to have (though it is not much) Wentworth was definitely better than Anne, but there was almost a cockiness and immaturity that wasn't at all attractive. However, he was handsome and his expressions were good. Though these two had there qualities as separate characters, they did NOT go together as a couple. There was always an awkwardness about them- even when she is accepting his proposal (I won't even BEGIN on that disturbing "kiss"). Overall, I found that I wasn't even very rejoicing at the final scene where he has given her the house. Despite all these complaints, this was a nicely made adaptation. I would recommend watching it if you haven't already read the book.

I think it very telling that so many people, without having discussed it first, had the same reaction to the long awaited "kiss" at the end of the film. She looked like a fish. A gasping, dying fish. Yeah, I get that she ran all over town (still not sure why they played it that way) but come ON! That had to be the worst on screen kiss in the history of kisses. The only reason I didn't give this movie a single star is because of the guy who played Frederick. He was easy on the eyes and not a horrible actor. But even he wasn't enough to get me to ever watch this travesty again. I'm a romantic and I've seen my share of climax of the story kisses and this . . . this deserves to be buried and forgotten.And that constant creepy stare at the camera didn't help anything either.