i have to read a tale of two city for my english class this year and and find it to be not that bad of a read and and it get very exciting towards the end . after we finish the book and our class watch this movie . while i have fun watch it because it so terrible at point i couldn not stop laughing and it really a travesty . the first problem be that almost all of the acting ( perhaps with the exception of darnay and dr. manette ) be remarkably terrible . they have hire a whole movie worth of low budget b actor and who simply can not be take seriously . their emotion be laughable and they deliver line terribly and their accent be inconsistent and and they often overact try to compensate for their own bad acting . the bad thing be probably the script itself . since i have read the book i follow the movie very well and but to someone who hasn not and they would be completely lose . the movie never keep on clear direction or narrative and jump all over the place spastically . the story be hardly tell at all and it almost a if the script be atotc highlight strung together into almost 4 hour of hell . so if youre desperate for a movie version and give it a shot . but terrible acting and terrible script keep this from be all it could be .