"That's not to say that Fennell's serious snipping of Brontë's original material and her profound pruning of the Earnshaw and Linton family trees isn't noticeable, but her devotion to the central relationship of Catherine Earnshaw and the mononymous Heathcliff makes for more than enough juicy material for the film's 136-minute running time."
"Much has been made of the erotic heat between Robbie's Cathy and Elordi's Heathcliff, and while purists will be shocked about the level of, uh, interaction between the two ("not text!!"), other audience members might be let down. All the smutty stuff is in the film's frankly very good trailers, and even then, it's cut within an inch of its life, hinting at much that doesn't actually exist. If the promise of the film is, again, to "come undone," Fennell and the stars haven't fully met that challenge, at least in the film's corset-tight narrative."
The film eliminates many secondary characters and compresses the novel's family trees to concentrate on the relationship between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff. Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi generate notable erotic chemistry, but much of the explicit promise appears in trailers rather than the final cut. The adaptation trims and reshapes Emily Brontë's material, producing a 136-minute work that feels tightly controlled and occasionally restrained. Purists may react to omitted plotlines and altered character presence, while some viewers might expect bolder narrative or erotic choices that the finished film ultimately withholds.
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