Movie Review: Persuasion (BBC)

I watched Jane Austen's Persuasion the other night - the 2007 version that was shown on PBS' Masterpiece Theatre this past year. I also saw recently another version (1995), with Ciarin Hinds as Captain Wentworth.

I definitely liked the 2007 version better, and this mainly revolves around my dislike of Hinds as a romantic lead. Anyone who's seen a film adaptation of an Austen novel knows that the male lead is inevitably brooding. Hinds just comes across as antagonistic - something that I also found watching him play Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre. He doesn't even really come across as likable at the end of the story.