Hopkins has the reputation, but he plays Titus entirely too blandly, falling back on some Hannibal Lector mannerisms in the hope they evoke chills. For my money Lange stole the film from under him. Alan Cumming is hardly memorable as Saturninus. Aaron, played here by Harry Lennix, is not very believable, due more to Shakespeare's writing than his acting. Like the Jew of Malta in Marlowe's play he lives just to be evil.
Few people see themselves as just living to cause trouble.
It is more a novelty, a Shakespearean horror tale. It is difficult to make a subject as technical as stock trading interesting and sufficiently cinematic, but writer-director Ben Younger makes it work here. However, beyond the interesting technical aspects of the story there is not a whole lot of plot here. Though there is an engaging father-son story that was begging to be further expanded. Almost everyone wants to be rich and most people do not want to really have to work for it.