Rent or buy Zeffirelli's 1968 version rather than waste your money on this garbage

Rating: 1/10 (30 October 2001)

Luhrmann's unoriginal reworking of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (the American youth gang scenario had been used many times before, once on film and over a dozen times on the stage) is a shallow experience, devoid of soul, with a feeble performance by Leonardo di Caprio. On every level, it fails. If you want to see a truly great interpretation of this classic, watch Zeffirelli's inspired and stunning 1968 version.