Seeing "Shakespeare in LOve"? - Why not!!!

Rating: Null/10 (10 February 2002)

In my opinion "Shakespeare in Love" was a nice movie, but it wasn't the best movie I've ever seen. I think Joseph Fiennes did a great job. I was impressed how passionately he played Shakespeare. On the other hand Gwyneth Paltrow was extremely boring and had absolutely no passion during her performance. The plot was good. I especially liked the open ending. It made me think of what might have happened to Shakespeare and "her love" after they had been seperated from each other. Besides, I think that it was a good production, it showed the social background during Shakespeare's lifetime and the movie was quite funny as well. But I think the movie must have shown more about Shakespeare's live. Mostly it was just a love story made in Hollywood (or somewhere else). And I hate the "poor-man-meets-a-rich-woman"-stories. It was too unrealistic and not based on Shakespeare's life experiences. I believe that he didn't find a girl that way. To make it short. You can see this movie, but you won't miss so much if you don't.