KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Stephan Hammond It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Kravenguy776 I like to fill those cool mugs erected too bad it wasn't a sequel, pretty good actor I didn't know he was your summer stuff he's pretty keep acting Sam.

M MALIK i mean it i got interested into this film after reading some reviews & the poster looked cool even the story sounded awesome its not Hollywood its from Australian cinema i have read Shakespeare & seen a few films based on his plays & as someone on the boards here said in a sarcastic manner that this guy Shakespeare writes the best movies ever of course that is true i agree Shakespeare maybe gone centuries ago but his legacy continues however when you adapt something from someone who is considered a legend in literature you need to be careful it is not joke honestly William Shakespeare will never be the same again this has created a bad impact on my mind.Macbeth 2006 is a film adapted from one of the plays Shakespeare wrote this is a modern take on it i mean the guns,girls,gangs etc usual stuff thrown in just for the attraction it focuses more on the style then substance i found the grittiness & sharpness in the characters absolutely missing they are so dull i mean anyone who has ever read Shakespeare will agree that this film tried to mock him.the plot:Macbeth is a drug-lord/gangster who is the leader of one of the gangs in Melbourne Australia this is the story of how he falls.look at here these guys didn't even show his rise to the top there is no back story or whatever of how he became a bad guy they simply made him extra tragic then he ever was the script was good but ruined by terrible direction Macbeth lives in a large mansion with heavy security hes got witches & his very own lady Macbeth.Macbeth dresses more like a playboy or film star then a gangster his love angle with lady Macbeth is rather weird then interesting just how can Macbeth got to other ugly women when he has the hottest lady Macbeth with him the guy is dumb or what he makes wrong choices most of the time no wonder he ends up in a mess.the cast:Sam Worthington looks hot here long hair style suits him this was before he came to Hollywood i saw him in avatar 2009 great actor but sadly he is misused here,rest cast is wasted except few women but the one that deserves getting mentioned is Victoria Hill this lady is stunning & beautiful plus she can act damn well too i wish she was more famous.if anyone is expecting this to be a stylish slick flick get ready to be disappointed this does feature gunfight,car chases & some sex & nudity but the who project is badly shot the camera work is awful it looks like a below average 90s porno film with unnecessary blood the only good thing are the kissing scenes between Macbeth & lady Macbeth that is the only time camera sits down properly other then that rest of the film is shaky cam or gorilla style & too dark have these guys ever heard of lights i mean common & who is the sound mixer of this film the music completely overshadows the dialogs a lot of background noise i simply lost interest in this film but kept watching only because of Victoria Hill & Sam Worthington it got me bored.the film can't decide which genre it wants to be in the constant shifting of tones was annoying it is one weird movie i tell you bad guys can summon themselves out of nowhere as for Macbeth one moment he is sad & another he is instantly hitting the clubs & going to parties just what was going on here the filmmakers tired to blend way too much Gothic themes in here & failed i kept thinking who is Macbeth supposed to be is he even a human or some vampire this film just wanted to be something like director Tim Burton makes.Overall Macbeth 2006 will go down in history as a desperate & most terrible idea to adapt a Shakespeare play into the big screen my rating is 3/10.

Alex Bolam Geoffrey Wright's modern rendition of Shakespeare's Macbeth does little credit to the Jacobean genius. From start to finish the film distracts from the plot line, the language is confusing, and the screenplay is pointlessly violent. Sam Worthington plays the drug lord of Melbourne Macbeth and Victoria Hill plays his, perse, open minded wife, but it does seem that Miss Hill has an obsession with her anatomy that diverts our attention from the poor acting. Duncan (pre-death) is the drug lord slaughtered by Macbeth, sparking the non-stop bloodbath reminiscent of the SAW franchise. Macbeth then begins an unnecessarily brutal killing spree claiming friends, women and children alike. The film culminates to feeble shootout between Macduff's (Lachy Halme) henchmen and Macbeth's cronies. All thanks to Macbeth's psychotic need to kill women and children of course. Note the disturbingly perverse pleasure that the assassins take in their deaths. One appears to climax as he kills Mrs Macduff. Nice.The film, amazingly, is a total disaster, Shakespeares tragedy concerns love and ambition, and the characters are strangely moving. This rendition is moving-to the bathroom. Wright sees fit to play upon tiresome clichés such as; amorous school-girl-witches, who seduce men twice their age on foggy dance floors; angry gun toting Australians;and blood splattering at the screen at every second turn. If only it were in 3-D.Macbeth is instead shown with a 'Jack Sparrow' attitude-a swagger, and an affiliation for "rum and salty WITCHES" (At World's End). Only Macbeth isn't funny and yes, he solves problems by shooting them, he does so with none of the grace or finesse of our Captain. All Macbeth does that IS canon to an ambitious, violent, superstitious tyrant-king is that he IS violent. He makes up for the lack of the other attributes with that. Which isn't helped by the confusing and pointless Jacobean dialogue. Had Miss Hill decided against using "Ye Olde English" the film may have been a minor success, meriting perhaps and extra star or two.Alas, it was not to be, Hill clearly of the opinion that gun-toting, drugged up Aussies are of a cultured sort.Take the penultimate and final scenes for example, where that unconvincing showdown concerning Macbeth and Macduff begins. Note how its the only scene where the killings are sort of justified. Well the last of Macduff's is anyway. This would be fine, however the Miss Hill's final scene demanded once again she get her kit off-only this time shes dead in a bath of her own blood. One last pathetically (albeit not unexpected) pointless display of both Wright's and Hill's perversion to sexual violence. Even Cap'n Jack would be bored of her by now.In short, if sex, brutality, drugs and promiscuous teenage witches is your bag-go see it. If not-don't. Just don't bring the wife and kids!

mgr81760 This is the best movie I've seen this year. I simply loved it, I thought it did a superb job of bringing the concept of MacBeth into the 21st century.First, I want to address the criticisms. It seems to me that people went to this movie expecting the wrong thing: either they wanted a movie like Romper Stomper, and didn't get one, so feel that MacBeth is somehow lacking; or, they're offended by the transplantation of MacBeth and consequent modifications, or they're expecting a performance like that in a theater rather than that of a movie. Those, however, are more their own expectations than the movie's flaws. As a movie, this is quality work, and I enjoyed every minute of it.The transformation into drug lords was really quite effective. I think the movie captured the essence of what Shakespeare (or maybe de Vere) had in mind in writing the play...the English didn't look upon the Scots lords as anything more than petty thugs to begin with, and the squabbling over relatively small spoils at the cost of men's lives works for either medieval Scotland or a drug lord.The violence is also necessary, it brings to mind exactly the sort of violence that Shakespeare has in mind. Does it matter if MacDuff's son is shot or run through with a sword--no, because the point is the willingness of MacBeth to kill children to maintain his position, and how it loses him the loyalty of most of his supporters: brutal and thuggish violence is okay...but spare the children.I didn't mind the Shakespearean language or the acting at all. I've seen a lot of criticisms of Worthington...sorry, but you don't watch this film looking for the next Olivier. And because I wasn't expecting the Royal Shakespeare Ensemble, I thought the acting, with a special nod to Victoria Hill as Lady MacBeth, was more than adequate for the film's need to render Shakespeare's words. In respect to the actual dialogue, the film was strong enough that the Shakespearean lines are automatically converted into your own English...when Banquo tells his son, "Fleance, fly, fly, fly", it's easy enough to hear, "get out of here".I also thoroughly enjoyed the small touches...the basins in which Lady MacBeth and her husband washed the blood off, I loved the "are you riding" to Banquo and yeah, except it's bikes not horses, there were so many little touches that just kept the play in mind even as you watched the movie, you knew that the truck was going to have a sign saying, "Birnham Timber"...one after another the technical renditions of the details into the 21st century kept me with a smile on my face throughout the movie.And I think there's things that you pick up in this movie that you necessarily don't in the play. Lennox meeting with Lady MacDuff after the latter flees...their obvious interest in each other as people going beyond his duty as "cousin"...that's something which, exactly because MacBeth is such a strong stage presence, you're not likely to pick up in the theater because your attention is focused on him, but which is possible to bring to the fore in a movie in which the setting makes their conversation believable and, therefore, meaningful enough to pick up on their feelings for each other.I also thought the movie was very well made. Others have complained about camera angles, something that I thought just kept the movie moving apace...I thought it was very well filmed, very crisp. Some have suggested that it could have been a bit broader in settings and numbers of cast...but that's an example of being unable to please all folks, because had the director opted for that route, those who would have been looking for a more Shakespearian cast to the movie would have been even more disappointed. I thought Geoffrey Wright struck an excellent balance between modernism and traditionalism, both in action and settings, that, once again, kept the movie closely tethered to the play, but fully played out in our own time and place. If I had one criticism of the movie, I would echo another in questioning the change in place, and especially the truncating, of the "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" soliloquy. I cannot for the life of me imagine why the director chose that way...I guess he wanted to use it looking down at MacBeth and his lady, both dead, as a cautionary third person, but it is so much more effective as MacBeth realizes it, with such deep bitterness, first person in his own life.Other than that one flaw, however, I thought this movie was perfect, and just cannot recommend it highly enough to anyone who wants to see MacBeth come to life in our own time and place.