À good retelling of Shakespeares play

Rating: 7/10 (14 October 2015)

After seeing the trailer for Macbeth I really wanted to see it and I must say that I did enjoy this film. The premise of this film follows the Shakespeare play where Macbeth convinced by his wife commits a crime to become king of Scotland as they both slowly start to lose their mind. I love Michael fassbender as he was truly great in this film. He did a great job of selling the humanity of Macbeth which ends up becoming a lack of humanity from Macbeth and you really buy it. Marion cottilard plays lady Macbeth and I thought she did a pretty good job, I didn't care about her character as much as fassbender and I thought she wasn't as strong as I wanted her to be. The rest of the supporting cast didn't really stand out at all which was a disappointment considering macduff and banquo in particular are big characters for the plot. The story is good as it truly shows how one act of greed can change a person and you see Macbeth slowly transition into madness. However, as I said before I don't believe they gave the character of lady Macbeth enough to do and enough of a reason to care about her story. The script is the big talking point in this film because it is all in the old Shakespearean English and at times it is really hard to understand what people are saying. However, in some of the more dramatic scenes I thought it worked pretty well. The style of this film is beautiful, all the cinematography was great and the action scenes felt very heavy hitting. Overall I enjoyed this film and if you have any interest in the source material then you should see this film.