Wuthering Heights (2009)

A Disappointing Continuation

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

I wanted to give it a rating of 8 or 9 but that wouldn't be fair as it would come just from me left with a feeling of sadness for this unhappy love story which is exactly what the movie wanted to reach. I read in other reviews that people were not happy of how Heathcliff was portrayed - too less cruel and letting the viewer feel sympathy for him. That exactly is what made me love this movie! It made me suffer with both sides Catherine and Heathcliff for their passionate love for each other which they could never express fully. Both actors playing the lead roles must be amazingly talented, everything was so real, I didn't want to miss even one second of their acting. The movie shows the destructive side of passion and love mixed with a society that does not allow anyone living a life outside of what was set for him/her at birth. It's been a long time ago I've last enjoyed a movie so much! When the movie finished I was left with a feeling of an unfinished and not lived love. The last scene of them at the window, both dead now, didn't in the slightest satisfy the need to see them enjoying themselves more. Great movie for romance and period drama junkies like me!

The Heathcliff played by Tom Hardy is the closest to the book-Heathcliff out of the film-Heathliffs I ever saw. Hardy displays best the brutal force and vengeance that made Heathcliff not "the one" in terms of a husband in any version of the story. I think both him and the child playing young H. were doing very well. Apart from the "little flaw" that Heatchliff vowed on more then one occasion in the book that he would never ever disrespect Cathy's will of having something. He never once made comments on wealth... Cathy was duely full of fire, although she was a bit too meek overall. Film-makers forget that even when Cathy dresses up like little lady, she is still a wild creature. Besides, at the end she becomes MAD. Sorry, but when she dies, she is far from being the poor mother that dies in giving birth. She is self-centered until the last. As a child, she was already using the same slightly haughty manners, and never loses this attitude (and never progresses too badly in it either.). Here, she was just too meek, while Edgar was just too cold-hearted. His true colors should be gentleness and meekness, who chooses to be buried with Cathy on the moors. Despite these interpretations, all of the characters, Hindley, Isabella and Nelly included, were just very good choices. They were looking like (and having looks of) the true characters. I adored especially how facial expressions of Cathy and her brother Hindley were matching. (They should have the same eyes.) Youngest Catherine were duely different in colors, but not in the body movement and in the facial expressions. She had just the same way of talking, and running like her mum. I think this was the best film-adaptation so far, but it should have been even more faithful to the book to become "perfect" :)

I wasn't expecting to like this version because I actually dislike all the other adaptations, but my god, this is absolutely fantastic!! It's the sexiest and most entertaining Wuthering Heights I've seen. I've watched this film over 10 times. I love it to pieces. I thought it was superbly cast and the characters are so perfectly portrayed. Tom Hardy as Heathcliff was just..magnificent. He nailed that psychotic, bad boy role like no other. I found myself loving and hating him all at once. Now I can't imagine anyone else playing it. He's a fantastic actor. I wish more people knew of him in the States! Also the music in this version is so beautiful.

... because it remembered some ideas in the book that touched me (ideas like .. humanity sometimes gives birth to inhumane, a selfish, fanatic love can produce misery etc.). i'm having a feeling of compassion for those who will watch this without having read the book first, because the poor souls won't understand what the story is really about. i absolutely dislike the way heathcliff was portrayed (and not only in this version, i never saw a wuthering heights movie in which heathcliff is heathcliff, as i imagine him in the book) and don't entirely agree with the actor chosen.. don't know why, it's something about his face, he's too beautiful and soft, the heathcliff i always imagined is much rougher and less macho. even if the guy does his best (and i must say he has a great voice, especially at the end of the movie or whenever he is playing the old heathcliff), it's just not enough. cathy is, like someone in another comment perfectly described the cathy in this movie, like a teenage girl swept of her feet by a handsome boy, she doesn't fight him enough, she doesn't seem to be able to match him. the cathy in the book was able to make heathcliff stop whatever he was doing and knee in front of her, here the roles seem to have changed, she's like an obeying wife who does whatever her husband tells her to do. she doesn't seem to have a will of her own, she just follows him. and that's wrong, in the book they were both equally stubborn and strong-willed. overall, i'll give this movie a 6, but just because, like i said before, it reminded me about the book, which i'll start to read in about... 1 minute or so..