Romeo + Juliet is a very awful and annoying movie that is a pain to sit through.

Rating: 1/10 (27 August 2017)

The main problems with this movie is the directors style, which is generally a cringe worthy mix of something you would expect to find on MTV combined with a YouTube video where the editor had just discovered all of the effects. Just in the beginning scene alone, there's a scary number of consistent annoying zooms into close ups and the scene consistently interchanging between normal and slow motion. Instead of helping to progress the story, as any good film should, it instead gets in the way of the story, feeling as if the director was more worried about showing of his previously mentioned style and trying to be noticed instead of creating a good film adaptation of Shakespeare's work.
The film then plummets to an even more more intolerable level as it reaches its first talking scene. Not only does the pacing of the film majorly slow but you realise that all the dialogue is written in old English. This makes some of the performances seem very flat because it is as if the actors don't actually know what they are talking about.
Overall, this film isn't worried about its story but instead, it is constantly distracting you from it with the director trying to say "Look at me and my style". This makes the film very hard to sit through due to its cringe worthy style, weak performances and uneven pacing.