Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 2016

Stars: Lily James, Matt Smith, Sam Riley

Director: Burr Steers

Budget: $28 million

So initial thoughts?
Loved it read the book now watch the film on DVD and my god i wish i had seen this in the cinema. It was one of those things i was worried about wasting money on but now i'm sad i didn't get to see it big screen.

From the moment i put it on i was absorbed into a very believable world. Something i actually found the book didn't convey as good, not that i didn't enjoy reading it mind.

So it's of course set in Jane Austins time period piece of pride and prejudice but with the addition of a zombie apocalypse taking place. London is walled off to protect it and most men are drafted into the army to protect vs the undead. We get narration by Charles Dance about all this at the beginning anyway. We are introduced to Darcy a very nice and strong character played by Sam Riley, he dispatches a zombie with the use of carrion flies who are attracted to the zombies. This isn't a typical zombie it's got it's wits.

There's the Bennet sisters then Elizabeth played Lily James, she's beautiful and again a brilliant character. All the sisters have been trained in martial arts and hand to hand and they all excel at it. The head of the house Mrs Bennet just wants her daughters all safely married.
In a ball Jane and Bingley instantly hit it off, Darcy is also here and mentions that Elizabeth is not an appealing woman. She gets upset and leaves. Anyway after an encounter with another sentient zombie a zombie horde attacks and we see the Bennet sister spring into action dispatching them all.

Later Jane takes it upon herself to go see Bingley on a rainy day but is beset by zombies she takes one out. Then she hesitates to dispatch one with a baby. Later at Bingley's home Elizabeth arrives to see her sister, who she knows is only suffering from a fever. Darcy believes she is infected and used his flies trick in her room. Elizabeth skillfully plucks each fly from air, so souring her view of the man even more. The rest of the sisters arrive and they take Jane back home.

We are then introduced to Matt Smith's character Parson Collins. He's interested in marrying one of the sisters, seemingly anyone that will take him. He likes Jane first but retreats when he finds she's betrothed to Bingley. He then sets his sights on Elizabeth who keeps spurning him at every attempt, until one one heavy spurn finally changes his mind to choose Elizabeth's friend.

On a trip to see the Bennets aunty and after another sentient zombie attack Elizabeth meets Mr Wickham who when young was under the protection of Darcy's father. He tells Elizabeth some things that even further sours her view of Darcy.
Anyway later Wickham shows her a church where the undead are sentient and living on animal brains instead of humans. He believes if they go to Lady Catherine de Bourgh, played by Lena Heady who is actually one of the only roles in the film i didn't care for that much.Darcy also after another ball where he over hears Mrs Bennet saying about Bingley's money uses it to persuade his friend to not marry Jane.

She of course laughs his idea out of the room, Darcy corners Liz later and explains things to her that Wickham left out of stories to her. This leads her to doubt some things, Darcy even eventually asked her for her hand in marriage, leading to an awesomely hot fight between the two of them when she also spurns his advances and learns it was him who advised Bingley.

London is later attacked by quite a coordinated zombie attack theres still quite a lot to this movies to say but damn i just don't want to spoil anymore, because some things are essential to the story to keep it good while you watch. That's how much i enjoyed this flick, why it hasn't had better rating on places i don't know. 
Yes you will have persevere with old are speaking etc and the zombies are also a back story to the still main love story. (to a degree anyway, in the end every decission still because of the zombie apocalypse) I don't why this film drew me in so much or why i enjoyed it as much as I did, it is a fresh take indeed maybe that was it.

Anyway i strongly recommend giving this a go I hate this because i know a lot of people don't like it which effects my views of giving it 5/5 so i wish sometimes i did do stars by the half, but i don't and i'm not changing my formula now lol. So P+P+Z Get's 5/5 in my book!