I truly feel like I've wasted two hours of my life. I saw the trailer and thought 'cool a new thriller.' The trailer is set up like the movie in two seemingly separate parts. It starts of like a love story and it reminded me of every Disney movie in which the princess falls for the handsome prince and I heard the wise words of Elsa 'you can't marry a man you just met'. The movie then takes a darker turn and it leads you to believe you're going to be watching a thriller from that point on.
[spoiler] It still is a love story and the only thriller aspect is the dreams that the new Mrs. de Winter is having. The story itself remains flat, dull and a drag. This story could've been told in half the time. Mrs. de Winter is such a bad character, she lacks backbone, lets herself be bullied by all of the staff and her husband - who has no time for her whatsoever and leaves her in the hands of the staff. Everyone worships Rebecca and in the end it turns out she is God-like to almost everyone except her husband who hated her so much that he shot her but that wasn't even a way to get revenge turns out because Rebecca was already dying and thus got her ending quick as she wanted. Oh and she also slept around a LOT, even with her cousin (gross). When Mrs. de Winter finds out her husband is a killer (for whatever reason and however mean Rebecca was, he DID kill her) she all of the sudden changes from his scared little baby bird into a woman who is ready to blackmail and play private investigator for her shitty husband who up until that point had been neglecting her ever since they got to the Manderly (a house he left like a shrine to the wife he so hated because Mrs. Danvers so obviously had an obsessive crush on 'her' Rebecca and she decides what goes and what not I guess?). So the last part of the movie goes by faster than the blink of an eye in which Mrs. de Winter does whatever she can to save her hubby from jail and it ends with them happily together living their best lives all around the globe, madly in love. WHAT?! [/spoiler]
I heard there is a book that this movie is based on, I wonder if that sucks as much as this? But my God, this movie was genre upon genre and not a single one was done right. Good casting though and I liked the cinematic choices they've made but the story all together was simply off putting and it felt like a cheap rip off from to many stories that they then flung together as one. No.