Review of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

it was AWFUL.

I enjoyed Benjamin Whitrow as Mr. Bennet in the BBC's extraordinary version of P&P and I normally like virtually anything Brian Blessed does, but this adaptation bored me silly. Samantha Morton is on (negative) roll - she has been in some pretty poor adaptations recently, and this is no exception. Max Beesley was just not believable as a romantic lead.

I just couldn't get interested in this production. I went out and rented the Finney version again to "purify" myself from this disaster.