Beautiful portrayal of love

Rating: 9/10 (22 September 2000)

They did an extremely wonderful job of showing love through this movie. Much better than all the others I've seen. My only complaint is that it seems that the actors don't really KNOW or feel what their lines meant when Shakespeare wrote them. It's really hard to understand the writing from that time so no one noticed except us Shakespeare freaks who find it as painful as nails on a chalk board when there's a pause between "Do with their death" and "bury their parents' strife." But all in all, wonderfully done for trying to modernize, yet keep the same poetry of a classic tragedy.