To Quote Shakespeare ...

Rating: 4/10 (12 September 2003)

"It is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury and signifying nothing." Luhrmann seems to be obsessed with camera and editing techniques and oddity for no particular reason. The modern songs immediately take you out of the intended setting, and all of the glitz is just a distraction from the fact that Luhrmann and Pearce must have written the screenplay during an all-night drinking session. Why, oh why, could they not have tried giving us the real Moulin Rouge? It would have been much more enjoyable than this half-baked concoction.