Upon meeting a young girl who is so sympathetic with him and treats him well, Pip, a young courageous and kind orphan guy lives in the countryside and struggles against having a miserable life he has, finds himself mysteriously involved in a game, as he takes the place of a gentleman, the thing that brings terrible for him and challenges him.
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.
