Mediocre Adaptation

Rating: 4/10 (1 February 2019)

This adaptation of Macbeth was mediocre at best. While I recognize some things are good to change between the play and the movie, some of the changes I felt were unnecessary. For example, the addition of a child accompanying the three witches served no purpose. Much of the dialogue was whispered and very quiet. Additionally, some lines were added from the play, which can be helpful to a movie, but it often felt very obvious when a line was added or whether Shakespeare wrote it, taking you out of the world of the movie. Lines were skipped around a lot as well, which I felt was not needed. Another change that was for the worse was Malcolm after Duncan's death. In the play, Malcolm flees because he fears for his life after the death of his father. In the movie, Malcolm flees because Macbeth directly threatens him. I feel that Macbeth threatening Malcolm just created a plot-hole that was not there before. Why, after the threat, did Malcolm not try to go to people that he felt he could trust? Overall, while most of the movie is true to the play, the changes that were made were did not add anything to the movie.