My wife, my adult daughter, and I started watching this movie that we had never heard of because we like to watch movies but there is so little new that's good during the pandemic. Have always been fans of Jeremy Northam, and we don't mind Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart (we knew we had seen the woman who played Christabel before, but didn't realize it was Jennifer Ehle until we saw the credits). But, other than for being able to see vistas of the beautiful English countryside and some museum scenes, we just didn't feel like the movie was strong enough regarding the present-day characters. There were a few times where we said, "that was forced". And, I don't know if it was written this way in the book--we figured out pretty quickly that it had to have been an insufficient attempt to adapt a book--but Eckhart's character goes back and forth between stereotypical American (or, more like how an English person might view such, really) and sensitive literature lover. My daughter graduated with a degree in English, and she said she couldn't think of one male in her classes that fit that American stereotype. The two types simply don't come in the same package.
Review of Possession
