Peaky Blinders' boss's Great Expectations adaptation has the recipe for success but fails to deliver

We had such great expectations...

has all the ingredients for delicious retelling of a Dickens classic but ends up bland on the palate.

The world-building acts as a dense overlay, hoping to distract us from the fact that this reimagining isn't as compelling as it should be.Olivia Colman's eccentric Miss Havisham is the perfect example of how the characters' personal stories fall short of great characterisation, resulting in apathy towards their journeys.

There is no real tension between the two despite their attraction seeming so natural on paper. While their similarities – an innate desire to escape their perceived fate – should create a natural ground for intimacy, the chemistry is absent, as are any meaningful scenes between the two that would explain their feelings for one another.

Knight doesn't drag things into the 21st century with its diverse casting, rather he digs down deep, unearthing a truer reflection of 18th-century London than its previous counterparts.

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