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The movie follows Pip, a humble orphan who becomes a gentleman with help from a mysterious benefactor. The chance also opens the door for him to meagerly pursue the lovely, yet hard-hearted Estella, though fate or something darker seems to be keeping them apart.
This Great Expectations is an absorbing addition to the roster of Dickens films that continues our 21st-century fascination with the worlds created by a 19th-century storyteller.
While Mike Newell's adaptation of "Great Expectations" isn't a terrible one by any means, there just isn't enough here to make it worth the time of sitting through a story that's already been done many times over.
Director Mike Newell approaches the sprawling bildungsroman with a stiff formalism, sacrificing all cinematic excitement for the sake of exalting great performances.