Amazing

Rating: 10/10 (16 April 2012)

By far the best Shakespearean movie...no, I correct myself....the best movie of a Shakespearean play....no, that's not right either...the best film based on a Shakespearean play....not quite right yet....the best cinematic adaptation of a Shakespearean play I've ever seen. The use of cinematic techniques (close-ups, hand held cameras, slick editing) enhances the already pungent dramatic elements of the play as well as making the language more easily understood while the parallelism to contemporary political and diplomatic events (it is set in modern dress) is both uncanny and apt. And the acting is simply superb; you will never hear the word "boy" in a Shakespearean play again without thinking of Fiennes's face.