Good as a Hollywood film.

Rating: 7/10 (2 October 2010)

As a great Hollywood fan, I enjoyed the film 100%. It's the Romeo and Juliet modernised. The structure of the film was good. The contrast between the two families was clear. The fire between the two families are well directed and exciting.In some parts, the editor creates suspense very carefully. The baseline of the story of Romeo & Juliet was told well.
As an actor and Shakespeare fan, I disliked the film. It was too different to the original. The love is the there, but not perfectly captured. The part I disliked most of all, is that even a lot of the lines are modernised. The poetry don't seem to be there anymore. The famous balcony scene was far from perfect.
If you are a movie fan and u know a bit about Romeo & Juliet, then I strongly recommend you watching this.
If you are, as I, an actor/ actress and really enjoy the proper Shakespeare's masterpieces and really want to see how the prose and iambic pentameter is read, then I recommend you to watch the Romeo & Juliet film of 1968 directed by Franco Zeffirelli.
I hoped this review has helped.