A striking addition to the Shakespeare filmography.
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02/09/06
Titus (1999)
68 %
Reviews Counted: 73 Fresh: 50 Rotten:23 Average Rating: 6.5/10
Consensus:
The movie stretches too long to be entertaining despite a strong cast.
Runtime: 2 hrs 42 mins
Synopsis: Based on Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (one of the Bard's lesser-known and most gruesome works), director Taymor (Broadway's The Lion King) brings this adaptation to life with dazzling imagery and haunting immediacy. Titus (Hopkins) is a victorious Roman general who makes two... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Harry J. Lennix, Alan Cumming, Jonathan Rhys-Myers
Director: Julie Taymor
Screenwriter: Julie Taymor
Story: William Shakespeare
Producer: Conchita Airoldi, Julie Taymor, Jody Patton
Composer: Elliot Goldenthal
Screenwriter: Julie Taymor
Story: William Shakespeare
Producer: Conchita Airoldi, Julie Taymor, Jody Patton
Composer: Elliot Goldenthal
Reviews
Top Critic
Eager to allow Shakespeare's words to shine through as clearly as possible, Taymor shoots the dialogue scenes fairly straight, with a minimum of background action.
12/02/02
Lacks the subtlety and subtext to make the story really work on screen.
12/10/01
Whether this makes for an eyeful or an eyesore depends on your tastes.
01/01/00
Top Critic
Anyone criticizing the gruesome bloodlust of modern Hollywood might do well to ponder the body count in this play...
01/01/00
Top Critic
Top Critic
This may just be the most striking and unsettling translation of Shakespeare ever committed to film.
03/26/08
It's hard to see it matching the success of other recent adaptations of the Bard.
12/07/07
At once mesmerizing and jarring to the point that the audience can never get comfortable in the film.
07/14/07
A consistently absorbing entertainment that never becomes either campy or facetious, given its inescapable exaggerations.
04/27/07
It's amazing how enjoyable Shakespeare can be when Kenneth Branagh isn't involved.
12/06/05
Hopkins unwisely echoes his performance as Hannibal Lecter, but Lange rises to the occasion with a mesmerizingly in-your-face portrait of mother love gone haywire.
07/21/05
Top Critic
Tecnicamente brilhante, esta inventiva adaptação traz ótimas atuações - com exceção de Cumming, que parece estar ensaiando para um revival de Rocky Horror Picture Show.
02/07/04
Along with everything else, the acting styles here clash, though the dissonance serves the drama's bellicose theme.
04/25/03
Taymor manages to play with images and music as effectively as Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet or McKellan's Richard III, yet weaves a tale so powerful and stark that it leave you breathless.
05/31/02
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