Ruined by lousy acting

Rating: 4/10 (21 August 2012)

I hadn't seen this movie in years. I remember actually liking it when it first came up. Should I mentioned I didn't speak English at that time? Seeing it again this time I realized how horrible pretty boy Leonardo di Caprio and Claire Daines sound. Their pronunciation is lousy and they just don't have any sense of enunciation. Just watch Di Caprio's scenes with Pete Postlethwaite's Laurence: day & night. The movie is so well intentioned, the updating ideas are good, the production design excellent; even the frantic editing and the pop music fit this modern adaptation. But everything fails if your two main characters are played by modest actors who can't follow the archaic yet beautiful language of the great bard.A pity.