Wuthering Heights review: Elordi and Robbie make it steamy, but this adaptation never truly burns!

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is all sex and fun, but that’s all there is to it!

Wuthering Heights review: When you hear that two devastatingly gorgeous actors like Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie are going to star in an adaptation of Wuthering Heights, you best believe a whole lot of people are going to look forward to it! Based on the novel by EmilyBrontë, this Bridgerton-esque story from the 1800s is a love-hate slow-burner that’ll make you love and hate the fact that you’re single depending on which part of the story stays with you the most!

When young Cathy (Charlotte Mellington) meets a boy (Owen Cooper) she is fascinated by, she asks her brute father to adopt him as one of the servants in the house. To Cathy, he was a new friend to play with and names him after her late brother Heathcliff. Since then Cathy and Heathcliff were joint by the hip and developed a bond like no other! The two grew up to be rather good looking individuals (the older versions played by Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie), who pine for one another but cannot really say their feelings out loud given their position in society. The duo always look like they’re ready to kiss each other at any given moment but the restraint they maintain is hot and makes you long for them to be together. But this isn’t your simple girl-meets-boy and the two fall in love forever story. It’s a yearning for each other for years because of a mere miscommunication kind of a love story!

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A horrible misunderstanding that leads to Heathcliff disappearing for years and Cathy marrying her rich next door neighbor Linton (Shazad Latif) leads to her having to live with a dull man and his ward, Isabella (Alison Oliver) who is off-beat and creepy to say the least. While Cathy adjusts to her new life well, she does not really have the same spark as she has when she is around Heathcliff. Even though she is well into her marriage, she never really gives up hope of Heathcliff’s return one day and like a sight to her and my sore eyes, he does indeed return. But only that this time, he is a polished, rich and an even more handsome version of himself (if that was even possible!). He now stands as an equal in front of her, as a man who can give her the life she wants. But her marriage being the biggest obstacle between them makes their love as tempting as a forbidden fruit. 

And so begins a series of steamy sex over an impressive Charli xcx soundtrack, that not only makes you question why you’re rooting for an extramarital affair but also reminds you that Jacob Elordi was indeed made for the female gaze. But just when the two and the story was about to pinnacle, it loses all rhythm and feels rather anti-climatic. The whole Romeo-Juliet set up does not feel convincing enough at all and leaves you feeling you lost out big time, just like Heathcliff does towards the end. While yearning deeply and fan-fiction like sex is the core of the film, you still feel like there weren’t enough moments between the two for you to shed a tear for them. The movie sucks you into its world in the first half only to not give you much at all by the end of it!

While Jacob Elordi as the hot and brooding Heathcliff and Margot Robbie as the chaotic Cathy do the best that they can with their roles, it simply wasn’t enough to save a story that fumbles eventually. It almost makes you think if all the PR campaign that became the talk of the town and made us all question Robbie’s marital status was really even worth it? Overall, Wuthering Heights shows us a love that’s destructive and romantic at the same time. It lets our intrusive thoughts about everything we’d want to do to our ex play out. But it isn’t necessarily an extraordinary love story that stays with you way past the credits roll. Nonetheless it could totally pass the vibe check for a one time watch Valentine’s day date night movie!

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