Really thrusthworthy adoption of a classic play

Rating: 10/10 (2 March 1999)

Some of my fellow commentators are irritated about this movie because it "looks like MTV". You have to remember that Shakespeare knew what he was doing, when he wrote these timeless plays, and knew that in 400 years they could fit in to whatever society. I believe that he is rotating in his grave, because of the fear many actors had had adopting and brushing the dust of Shakespeare's works. Branagh's Henry V is brilliant theater, but I do not think it works as a movie.
In this film they have kept the respect for the old master in adopting the dialogue to modern american. And I think that Shakespeare in his heaven, is very pleased with that, because I do not think that Shakespeare expected people in 1996 to talk like they did at "old Lizzys" court