Everything is over-directed and over-designed like a gruelling pop video with an awful lot of sound and fury.
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07/13/07
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Macbeth (2007)
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Reviews Counted:41
Fresh:19
Rotten:22
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: A new take on Macbeth relies too heavily on nudity and violence, and ends up looking like a campy 1970s horror movie.
Theatrical Release:Jun 15, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: With his fourth film, Australian director Geoffrey Wright attempts to contemporize a Shakespeare classic. Featuring Elizabethan dialogue in the midst of an urban and violent modern-day setting,... [More]
Starring: Sam Worthington, Victoria Hill, Lachy Hulme, Gary Sweet
Director: Geoffrey Wright
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Reviews for Macbeth
The film disintegrates into an over-the-top 1970s horror.
07/13/07
Good-looking and well-meaning, this Macbeth falls some way short of its intentions, but nevertheless breathes glamorous and sadistic new life into an old story.
07/13/07
A tacky mix of neon lights and bare skin.
07/13/07
Poetic but bleekly pessimistic version of the Danish tragedy.
07/13/07
It lacks size and nerve where it's most needed: in the performances.
07/12/07
Top CriticUnfortunately, ‘Romper Stomper’ director Geoffrey Wright’s take on the play fails to do it justice: both lumpen and flashy, it convinces neither as drama nor as stylistic exercise.
07/12/07
Everything about this adaptation feels unconvincing and lackluster, and the beauty of the language never takes wing.
07/09/07
The famous soliloquies are heard in voice-over -- a risky idea that works -- and Wright has found clever ways of naturalizing the play's more supernatural elements...
07/06/07
The movie thinks it is daringly up-to-date, but forsooth, 'tis as hip as the ghost of Don Johnson.
07/06/07
Top CriticGeoffrey Wright’s brutal and thrilling new version of Macbeth envisions the thane of Cawdor as a longhaired, drug-addled gangster.
07/06/07
The rush into gunfights and car chases pushes the text in all the wrong directions.
07/05/07
For kinks, the three witches are naughty rave-teens. And for kicks, the cast, led by Sam Worthington, is consciously chosen for its beauty, each player a brawling rock star in his own mind.
07/05/07
Top CriticIt's directed as if by some mad Goth disco queen, utterly tweaked on crystal meth.
07/05/07
this production gives The Sopranos a run for the money when it comes to blood-laden butchery. Not once but twice does this Macbeth saunter about splattered with hemoglobin from head to foot, looking very Carrie-like, post-bucket spilling.
07/04/07
A novelty that the Bard's worshipers will probably find blasphemous and everyone else a puzzlement, although far from a bore.
06/29/07
Top CriticGeoffrey Wright's Macbeth imagines the Bard's tale of power, greed, and madness as an ultra-violent gangster opus populated by pretty faces who'd be right at home on The CW.
06/29/07
Successful on a visual level, but fails to fully import the play into the modern era.
06/14/07
With its strong cast headed by Sam Worthington, the result is a gripping and sharply crafted film layered with emotional density.
10/11/06
This is Shakespeare as action film -- furiously paced and unapologetically cinematic. If the baroque sets and costumes often overwhelm the acting, it's unlikely the hipsters will mind.
09/13/06
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