Macbeth

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Audience Member Director, please buy a tripod, tell your actors to actually speak their lines instead of whispering, and stop trying to outdo Shakespeare. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 03/10/25 Full Review John M Unbearable. 15 minutes. That's how much I was able to endure this crap. For some reason it assumes the viewer is already in tune with some sort of already existing context, like a book or play. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/02/25 Full Review binbows225 Poor acting, set design, and costumes combined with Shakespeare's dialogue make this impossible to enjoy. The movie feels more like a performance of the play being recorded than it does a truly independent motion picture. It does not play to the strengths of a movie; it takes the bare minimum from Shakespeare's designs and puts no effort in to make it visually entertaining. Using my imagination while reading the script of Macbeth was more entertaining than the visuals of this movie. Look for other Macbeth adaptions if you want to find a good movie. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 04/08/24 Full Review Primrose C Personally I loved the film and enjoyed watching it, I will definitely watch again soon. This version of the classic play by William Shakespeare brings it's own unique twist. Like all interpretations of Macbeth, every director will put their own creative spin on the film but what I particularly found this adaptation intriguing. It gave a lot more depth to Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's romantic partnership which we don't get much development on it other movies. I brought up a topic forgotten by many people who have read the play, the fact that LM and M did in fact love eachother. I thought the actors displayed these conflicting emotions amazingly and I would recommend for GCSE students and upwards. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/15/23 Full Review Alec B The text is just disregarded here, true the play's words are spoken (well whispered ominously) but there's no real effort put forth to give them meaning or purpose, which would explain all the overly dramatic pauses you could drive a bus through. Kurzel's focus was on the violence and flashy visuals, which combined with heavy cuts to the play makes this film adaption seem both rushed and overlong. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 12/14/23 Full Review gab3 b While the cinematography is a 10/10, the adaption to the titular story of Shakespeare's Macbeth fails to quite grasp the authenticity of its themes. A relatively basic adaption with a few artistic liberties, (which I believe helped in some aspects) the movie trades in the story for a visual feast for the eyes. By no means a terrible adaption, the movie sees Macbeth as a soldier ridden with PTSD, an interesting but overall distraction to the overlooked themes of free will, ambition, and legacy that permeate the original text. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/01/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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