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Macbeth (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 41 Fresh: 19  Rotten:22 Average Rating: 5.2/10
 
Consensus: A new take on Macbeth relies too heavily on nudity and violence, and ends up looking like a campy 1970s horror movie.
 

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Rated: 15

Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins

Theatrical Release: 13-07-2007

Synopsis: With his fourth film, Australian director Geoffrey Wright attempts to contemporize a Shakespeare classic. Featuring Elizabethan dialogue in the midst of an urban and violent modern-day setting, MACBETH stars Sam Worthington as the title character.... With his fourth film, Australian director Geoffrey Wright attempts to contemporize a Shakespeare classic. Featuring Elizabethan dialogue in the midst of an urban and violent modern-day setting, MACBETH stars Sam Worthington as the title character. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Sam Worthington, Victoria Hill, Lachy Hulme, Gary Sweet, Steve Bastoni

Director: Geoffrey Wright
Screenwriter: Victoria Hill, Geoffrey Wright
Producer: Martin Fabinyi
Composer: John Clifford White

DVD Info

Release:

Jan 9, 2009

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Making Of

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After a few early spins in his grave, Shakespeare may end up grudgingly respectful

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07/13/07
Financial Times
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3.5/5

This modern-day Australian adaptation of the Scottish play is thrillingly deranged, although it's also rather pretentious.

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07/13/07
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
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3/5

Flawed but enjoyable adaptation with some good ideas balanced against occasionally amateurish direction and unintentionally amusing pronunciation.

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07/13/07
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon
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2/5

There are good performances, smart direction and dark-hued photography that's impressive. But it would be surprising if this Macbeth were to bring people back to Shakespeare proper, as it intends.

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07/13/07
Derek Malcolm
This is London
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2/5

Light touches are counterbalanced by some heavy-footed acting and a streak of leaden literal-mindedness.

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07/13/07
Robert Hanks
Independent
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4/5

Sadly, the delivery does not always match the magnificence of Shakespeare’s words and the film relies much too heavily on brutal violence for its drama.

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07/13/07
Sun Online
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2/5

FAST-paced and flashy, this contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s bloodiest play catches the eye but never engages the heart like it should.

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07/13/07
Daily Mirror [UK]
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2/5

Ultimately, though, it's just a load of sound and fury, indifferently played by a Neighbours-lite cast and fatally compromised by graphic violence that makes Roman Polanski's 1971 version seem tame by comparison. Strewth…

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07/13/07
Neil Smith
Total Film
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2/5

Double, double toil and trouble, handgun burn and jacuzzi indifferently percolate.

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07/13/07
Tom Cox
Daily Mail [UK]
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The story's handled at a reasonable clip, and there are some good, if uniformly bearded, supporting performances.

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07/13/07
Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph
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1/5

Everything is over-directed and over-designed like a gruelling pop video with an awful lot of sound and fury.

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07/13/07
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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2/5

The film disintegrates into an over-the-top 1970s horror.

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07/13/07
James Christopher
Times [UK]
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3/5

Good-looking and well-meaning, this Macbeth falls some way short of its intentions, but nevertheless breathes glamorous and sadistic new life into an old story.

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07/13/07
Hannah Forbes Black
Channel 4 Film
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2/5

A tacky mix of neon lights and bare skin.

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07/13/07
David Mattin
BBC
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3/5

Poetic but bleekly pessimistic version of the Danish tragedy.

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07/13/07
David Parkinson
Empire Magazine
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2/6

Unfortunately, ‘Romper Stomper’ director Geoffrey Wright’s take on the play fails to do it justice: both lumpen and flashy, it convinces neither as drama nor as stylistic exercise.

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07/12/07
Ben Walters
Time Out
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2/4

The play's power has been diluted by questionable editing, an overload of blandly stylized violence and the conspicuous suspicion that this whole thing is the predictable result of catering to base commercial instincts.

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01/14/08
Jeff Shannon
Seattle Times
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2/6

Something weakened this way comes, you could say.

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08/16/07
David Fear
Time Out New York
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2.5/5

It’s probably best not to look too deep for meaning.

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08/10/07
Josh Rosenblatt
Austin Chronicle
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2.5/4

Grunge and slickness substitute for eeriness or any hint of psychological terror.

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07/27/07
Evan Henerson
Los Angeles Daily News
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