Overrated!

Rating: 5/10 (19 December 2015)

This is a film with a summary-plot. To be fair to it, one has to say that it took someone of the stature of Shakespeare to raise this story above its folklore background and into well-known tragedies. But come to treatment in film there is little to pen out from worriers mumbling one-liners,Star Wars styled witches, frozen silent terrain, blood, and more of it. In case you don't follow, let alone stomach, the gritty action, they continually reverted to extra-slow motion, CSI-style sliced scenes - but in swords and daggers instead of bullet, and loud bangs and screams. A blooded warrior lifted up, his boyish-blooded face zoomed out from the crowded scene then the camera wonders off lazily to other parts of the scene just to return to the warrior while he is being butchered. The result is wasted effort of very talented actors and actresses and the good intention of dazzling cinematography. The result an unconvincing hodgepodge of tricks and tropes that washes out quickly like those witches that pop in just to fade out in the desolate prairies. Call it the Curse of Macbeth!