Lots of reviewers have pointed out the many plot holes so I won't rehash all that, and honestly, for me they didn't detract from the film in any major way. What really detracted from the film was the fact that the female lead is played by a homeless meth person.
Hugh Jackman is arguably one of the most attractive leading men ever, and here he plays an actual British peer, a duke, in fact. Traveling to our time he promptly falls for the first haggard blonde woman he meets? It was so distracting that it hindered my ability to suspend disbelief. Her hair looks the same when she falls out of bed in the morning as when she goes out to dinner with her boss. She's a bum, and this comes close to ruining the movie.
Now, some people are commenting that Kate would never be so foolish to leave her career and civil rights behind and follow a man back to a time when, as many have said, "Women had no rights at all..." and other such nonsense. They're talking about common, low-born women. We must remember that the reining monarch in 1876 was Queen Victoria, who identified as a woman and whose pronouns were She/Her/Hers. This was a time when gender mattered not as much as one's station in life. Kate would be traveling back to that time and would be a Duchess, so not only would she have rights, she would have servants and 99% of the people she would meet would have to bow and curtesy and kowtow to her and if she was displeased, she could have them on the rack in a New York second. So of course Kate would be into it. She would love the power.
The real problem no one seems to notice is she has no money in 1876, and neither does the duke.
Hugh Jackman is arguably one of the most attractive leading men ever, and here he plays an actual British peer, a duke, in fact. Traveling to our time he promptly falls for the first haggard blonde woman he meets? It was so distracting that it hindered my ability to suspend disbelief. Her hair looks the same when she falls out of bed in the morning as when she goes out to dinner with her boss. She's a bum, and this comes close to ruining the movie.
Now, some people are commenting that Kate would never be so foolish to leave her career and civil rights behind and follow a man back to a time when, as many have said, "Women had no rights at all..." and other such nonsense. They're talking about common, low-born women. We must remember that the reining monarch in 1876 was Queen Victoria, who identified as a woman and whose pronouns were She/Her/Hers. This was a time when gender mattered not as much as one's station in life. Kate would be traveling back to that time and would be a Duchess, so not only would she have rights, she would have servants and 99% of the people she would meet would have to bow and curtesy and kowtow to her and if she was displeased, she could have them on the rack in a New York second. So of course Kate would be into it. She would love the power.
The real problem no one seems to notice is she has no money in 1876, and neither does the duke.