me thinks thou doth protest too much

Rating: 1/10 (11 June 2012)

I couldn't take more than 33 minutes of this. It was just too boring and unrealistic. Shakespeare wrote for the common people of his day. Now we consider it high brow but I find it totally out of touch with anything from the last 500 years. Trying to update this to a modern setting is unrealistic and doesn't make any sense to me. The characters are all delivering long speeches that will bore even the hard core Sharkespeare fans. To try to make this modern and using the language of the original is laughable. Watching the current citizens of Rome going to the "grain" silo to protest lack of bread and having the SWAT team come out to stop them and proclaiming that thou art thine enemy rings hollow. I'm just glad that I didn't have to sit through it in a theater and waited the two weeks till it came out on DVD.