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Rating: 3/10 (1 February 2019)

This movie doesn't do Shakespeare's "Macbeth" justice. The dialogue is a lot of mumbling, the storyline is almost impossible to follow, the things added to the movie that weren't in the original play don't make sense, and important scenes from the play were left out. The movie's attempts to add deep and meaningful scenes to dialogue usually lead to awkward moments with weird pauses in the dialogue. Towards the end of the movie, Fleance comes back to take a sword left on the battlefield as Macbeth, who wasn't beheaded as he was in the play, kneels on the battlefield. A reasonable assumption that could be made as to why Macduff doesn't decapitate Macbeth is to leave him so that when Fleance comes to the battlefield to retrieve the sword, he uses the sword to deal the final blow to Macbeth. However, instead, he runs off into the distance and the credits are rolled out. The biggest flaws from this movie are all the open ends that are left. Many important details were left out of the movie and new things were added without a reason being presented. Macbeth wasn't decapitated, the weird sisters wore normal clothing and do not match their description in the play, the weird sisters also had children with them, the weird sisters gave Macbeth one of the three prophecies when he returned to seek answers from them instead of all three coming from the apparitions, and the list goes on. The only saving grace of this movie were the beautiful battle scenes with lighting that made what would otherwise be a dismal heath, into a colorful scene that has a sense of wonder and magic to it.