The delivery robbed it of its relatability

Rating: 6/10 (8 November 2015)

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OK, maybe it's hard to argue that there is a level of relatability to be had with a story about a mad king who usurped his cousin and systematically ordered the assassinations of all contenders/opposers to the throne . . . not your average Saturday night. However, as a British man who as studied and enjoyed the works of Shakespeare (though I'll admit that I've not read Macbeth), I found that the voices of the characters were lost through poor delivery.
At first I thought that maybe the language is too strongly Shakespearean for us to easily understand now, but then again I've enjoyed multiple renditions of Romeo and Juliet, of Much Ado About Nothing and other classics. This made me re-watch them to make sure that my grip on Shakespeare wasn't slipping, but I found again that I enjoyed them, and yet I never engaged with Macbeth, though his story is utterly compelling and full of drama. It felt empty, as if the actors didn't know what it was they were saying, and therefore the emotions that we read to understand the difficult dialogue was either misinterpreted or missing altogether.
I'm going to watch it again to see if it was just the initial viewing, and I'd advise reading Macbeth before seeing the film, as that may be where I'm going wrong, but on initial review I think the actors didn't convey the correct emotions with their dialogue and on- screen actions, thus making it a disjointed experience and robbing it of emotional relatability.