This movie is a mutt

Rating: 1/10 (8 August 2004)

If you want to see Romeo and Juliet on film, watch the 1968 version. Olivia Hussey is gorgeous, John McEnery is a great Mercutio and the Nino Rota music is magnificent. You can even see young Michael York, who plays a brilliant Tybalt.
This version had me alternating between boredom and anger. I found it pompous and cartoonish. The overall impression was of a sophomore's first attempt at film. Call me old fashioned, but if a director interprets one of the finest theatrical works in the English language, it seems to me that he needs to do a better job than this.
Harold Perrineau did a decent job at Mercutio in the context of a film that just doesn't get it done. Too bad that some pretty good acting talent was wasted on this weak project. Rate this a 1.