Good update, misses some parts

Rating: Null/10 (15 December 2001)

I thought this was a good movie. It brought Shakespeare into the twentieth century so well. However, the film leaves out a point that I thought would be interesting: In the play, Paris arrives at the Capulet burial vault and Romeo fights and wounds him. Paris then says "If thou be merciful, lay me in the tomb with Juliet". I wonder why the point was left out. All in all, I thought it "was all for the best" as Romeo might say. It was a good adaptation and I'd see it again.