Bill Clinton's Shakespeare

Rating: 5/10 (5 April 2015)

Though it's based on a 400 year old play, this movie is more 90s than Bill Clinton in a pair of Zubaz pants singing Hootie and the Blowfish songs. That's not really a knock so much as an observation.
It's certainly visually impressive, and an intriguing and fresh spin on one of Shakespeare's most widely adapted works, but the actors deliver the admittedly tricky dialog with all the eloquence of someone speaking Klingon with a mouthful of mashed potatoes.
Like the president himself, I don't know that this Clinton-era adaptation still holds up as something "cool", but if it has worked as a gateway to Shakespeare for Gen X then I suppose that's not a bad legacy.