what a waste of celluloid

Rating: 1/10 (16 September 2000)

this film takes the bounds of the unwatchable and stretches them to near-mythic proportions. how a director could start with a play of such stature and end up with such a poorly acted, unintelligibly edited piece of filth is beyond my comprehension. the only thing this flick has going for it is the supporting cast. Pete Postlethwaite is excellent, as always, but putting him on screen with leo's befuddled romeo is a true crime. some modernizations are better left unmade. on the whole, i'd rather sit in the treatment chair in "A Clockwork Orange" and be forced to watch "West Side Story" for three days straight than be forced to endure a second watching of of this beast.