The Tragedy of Macbeth
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
- Released: 2021-12-25
- Runtime: 105 minutes
- Genre: Drama, Thrillers, War
- Stars: Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Brendan Gleeson, Corey Hawkins, Moses Ingram, Harry Melling, Ralph Ineson, Alex Hassell, Brian Thompson, Sean Patrick Thomas, Miles Anderson, Max Baker, James Udom, Ethan Hutchison, Jacob McCarthy, Matt Helm, Scott Subiono, Lucas Barker, Nancy Daly, Robert Gilbert, Richard Short, Kathryn Hunter, T.K. Weaver, Kayden Alexander Koshelev, Wayne T. Carr, Edward Headington, Tim Oakes, Peter Janov, Madison Randolph, Phil DiGennaro, Bertie Carvel, Stephen Root, Jefferson Mays, Olivia Washington, Susan James Berger, Ledger Fuller
- Director: Joel Coen
Comments
- rachel-elizabeth-nolan - 8 January 2023
Stunning cinematography, disappointing in other aspects
By far the best thing about this rendition of Macbeth is the stunning visuals created through meticulous set design, lighting, VFX, and cinematography. The aspect ratio, black and white palette, and highly abstracted setting work together to tell the story in a new and fascinating way. However, in a story primarily concerned with the main characters' descent into madness, I would have liked to see a less restrained performance from the principal actors. Another aspect that fell flat for me was the several instances of very obvious ADR-a more minor detail, but one that really took me out of the fantastical world Coen has so carefully crafted. Certainly a film worth watching, but not one that will become a personal classic for me. - qkgyrvnf - 18 July 2022
It's a dud.
Some of these reviews are funny, people that have no experience with Shakespeare leaving bad ratings because they cannot understand the words, lmao put your work in and stop being a nitwit. This is Shakespeare people download the smartpass audiobook on audible, they are great intros to these plays.
That being said this interpretation is poorly made in my opinion. Washington literally just mumbles most of his lines and puts no emotional effort into the part at all. They try to get cameras and props to to do what the actors should be doing with their face and voice, it's really bad. The words and how the actors express them is what really moves me in these Shakespeare plays, Ian Mcklellen did a really good job imo. It just doesn't seem like it works all that well in our post creative world where actors put little effort in and cameras, music, and props do all the work. All the eye candy and bad music and camera magic puts the beautiful words into the background, sometimes I cannot even hear what they are saying they say it so fast and without any emotion. I'm just a layman I'm not a Shakespeare scholar by any means; but it just seem like that it was sloppily put together and put out there just to make quick cash, just like everything else that is made these days.
I'll give it 3 stars though I guess it was at least watchable, it did have its good moments.
