mac-dreck...BOO!

Rating: 1/10 (5 December 2015)

SPOILER ALERT: unforgivably, irredeemably DULL...
Shakespeare can be played and interpreted many ways, fine...but there's no excuse for this flat, one-note -- and I don't just mean the monotonous, dirge-like score -- utterly tedious, tiresome mess. (this movie could give "miserable-ism" a bad name.)
OK, the dead baby opening is a brilliant stroke...congrats to somebody for making visual something only hinted at in the play -- but it all goes downhill from there -- and not fast. "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" really does "creep" in a very petty pace.
"macbeth" has so many pulpy audience-grabbing elements...it's an operatic funhouse of witches, blood, murder, omens, pitched battles, visions. swordplay and ruthless ambition...boisterous and violent and pitched to a frenzy at points...in short: FUN! -- so why is this misconceived and woefully misbegotten production so hopelessly mopey from the first frame?...and all melancholic remorse for its entire insufferable length?..fassbender has no feel for the language, the less he says the better...cotillard comes off better, but only because her face is so powerfully expressive...and the burning woods of burnham are the only heat on screen. (hey, Scotland's blasted heaths are kinda foggy -- we get it!)
wish 0 stars was an option...(or even negative numbers)...BLCCGGGGHHH!...a curse on the (so-called) film-makers.