Tuesday 20 November 2012

Anna Karenina (2012) 6/10

Starring : Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Matthew Macfadyen
Director : Joe Wright
Running Time : 130 mins

It’s 1874, and aristocrat Anna Karenina (Knightley) has journeyed to Moscow to help save her brother Prince Oblonsky (Macfadyen) from a failed marriage, but when she meets Count Vronsky (Taylor-Johnson) and starts an illicit affair with him, she finds that her own marriage to Count Alexei Karenin (Law) might be in jeopardy.

Jude Law does do a really good job in this latest adaptation of Tolstoy’s melodramatic work. Sadly, Knightley doesn’t feel like she is acting anymore and seems to play the same character in everything and as for Taylor-Johnson in a serious role? I can’t take him seriously since Kick-Ass, even though he did dramatic roles prior to that, and I sense that Kick-Ass may have ruined any career he may have planned on having. Fans of Tolstoy might enjoy this, or they might think that there is too much going on in the background for such a simple and dark story.

You’ll like this if you liked : Marie Antoinette



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