Let's be realistic.

A Masterpiece!

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Whatever story the filmmakers were trying to tell here, it had nothing at all to do with Wuthering Heights. I can't even review it as an adaptation because this film is as far removed from Emily Brontë's book as the moon is from a wheel of cheese. Sadly, it also made for a numbingly boring film experience in its own right. It was, for me, a colossal waste of time. Squandering the two hour runtime on pointless navel-gazing was perhaps the biggest crime when other adaptions have made do with less to wrap up the story of both generations. I wouldn't say Heathcliff being black was true to the book, but in my mind it's neither more nor less wrong than Ralph Fiennes or Tom Hardy, who are about as far from 'dark' as anyone can get. It would have been a nice change if they hadn't insisted on changing the entire focus of the story because of it. Viewers who enjoy pretentious art films with shaky camera work, lack of dialogue and gratuitous zoom-ins on random objects may get a kick out of this one, but anyone who came for Wuthering Heights better steer clear.

What the did with the ambient (decoration, costumes, lighting) was fine and even making Heathcliff a black person instead of a "gipsy" would have work out... but the script and the characters were so effing messed up that didn't seem to be faithful to the essence of the novel. What the hell is wrong with Heathcliff's reactions? Where is the hate and the thirst of revenge? Hindley calls him a "thieving n*gger" and he doesn't react, his "revenge" is just buying the farm. Edgar Linton kicking the sh*t outta him.. really? There are also a couple of scenes with Isabella (Heathcliff biting her lip and licking her ear) that seemed simply odd. The cruelty towards the dogs is unnecessary too. The omission of the "I'm Heathcliff" speech is the worst part... I get it, it's not supposed to be exactly as the book, since it's an adaptation but what they did here, is a slaughter. Really, they tore apart the story.

So I already warned you about my review could bee containing spoiler of some type. Therefore be aware!I know every artist should enjoy the artistic freedom, but am sorry I couldn't enjoy this movie ... First of all the movie is too long. Those two hours of nothing happening made me sleepy. It is more of a documentary type of a film than some real film genre. The characters are nothing like the original Wuthering heights characters and it is such a shame that Hitcliff was turned into love sick boy turned into a necrophiliac. The story is just some dark version of Romeo and Juliet. I haven't seen a picture that could resemble Wuthering Heights.Honestly speaking I am not able to recommend this movie to anyone. Maybe I may be accused of not understanding artistic freedom and such, but the movie did not fulfill my expectations.

What a waste of my time! I adored the book and this movie made me hate the story! Why couldn't they stick to the book and not turn it into some twisted and morbid time consumer. They put useless disgusting things in it that weren't even in the book! I turned it off halfway through, what a disgrace. And why was Heathcliff black? I'm not racist, but that was not in the book! All those disgusting bloody things in it too weren't right. At no point does Catherine lick Heathcliffs blood, what the hell was with that? And not to mention that Catherine was chubby. I can't believe this movie could've gotten so many high reviews. There must be some very twisted people out there to think this was complementing Emily Bröntes great story!