visually stunning but badly acted.

Rating: 2/10 (1 August 2007)

This is Shakespeare for Dummies. While visually stunning and full of action, the acting is sub par at best. Whther this is the fault of the actors or the director I cannot say, but the lines are delivered melodramatically. Apparently these people do not know how to put emotion into their lines without shouting. Furthermore, the way the lines are delivered when not shouted are given with bizarre inflections and accents on words and syllables that blur the meaning of the speeches. As a teacher of literature, I would not recommend this movie. While I believe that Shakepeare can be made accessible to today's youth, especially urban youth, in doing so, this movie loses the original vision: to tell the story well.