Review of My Cousin Rachel (2017) by Ginak — 11 Jun 2017

I enjoyed this engrossing Roger Michell adaptation of the classic Daphne du Maurier novel whose main weakness was uneven acting. Rachel Weisz, Simon Russell Beale, and Iaian Glen were wonderful, but unfortunately Sam Claflin and Holliday Grainger, although both good-looking, were far less interesting to watch or care about.

Weisz was great at keeping me guessing with an occasional look or tone of voice about whether she was innocent or an evil fortune hunter, which was important to the original novel and to the film, but Claflin was nice-looking but bland and didn’t make me care very much about Philip or what happened to him, so a lot of the dramatic tension was lost.