Completely agree, & I don't even like this adaptation! Keira Knightley lacked the ironic edge of a good Elizabeth Bennet, but Donald Sutherland ruled as her thoroughly over-it-all dad.
Extremely Basic Millennial Woman opinion but Donald Sutherland holds the title of Best Mister Bennet. Just a perfect balance of bemused boredom, apathy, simmering disappointment, good-natured but aloof and resigned detachment.
Just read the book for the first time and watched this and the 1940 version. Totally correct take. He was the king of great performances in sub par films. It was never his fault a picture didn't work.
