Unwatchable trash

Rating: 1/10 (30 June 1999)

Fans of Shakespeare and good movies stay clear. This is possibly the worst movie ever made. First off the camera zooms in and out so much you can't tell what's going on, and it's enough to give one motion sickness. This ruins the movie by itself. Second, they do a freeze frame of each actor to introduce each character ala The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. A Sergio Leone movie this is not. Third, the acting is incredibly awful. Pete Postlethwaite is basically the only competent actor. The cameo by M. Emmet Walsh is blasphemous. Everyone else deserves to be in this lemon of a movie. Fourth, there is a music number that made me want to end it all right then and there. However, this movie has one thing going for it. The script. It was basically unadapted from the play, however, the way it was visually handled is enough to make Shakespeare roll over in his grave. And over and over and over...