Macbeth (2006)

Macbeth: Directed by Geoffrey Wright. With Victoria Hill, Lachy Hulme, Gary Sweet, Sam Worthington. A contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” set in the ganglands of Melbourne.

“Sam Worthington has an interesting take on the character of Macbeth but overall his performance was surprisingly compelling. Thereu0026#39;s some really good and some really not so good aspects to this film. Firstly, Itu0026#39;s all shot with HD cameras, which is a fairly brave move as itu0026#39;s an emerging discipline and I think was managed rather well *mostly* I really am unable to comment with any authority on the accuracy or delivery of the lines, not having read or seen Macbeth, but apart from a few almost comically ocker Aussie delivered lines, it was handled with a fair degree of finesse and even didnu0026#39;t feel out of place for the majority of the movie.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe action scenes (of which there are surprisingly many) are well choreographed and shot.. with the exception of the big finale schlock-fest, which seems entirely shot in slow-motion and to be honest felt like it was more a bad remake of the ending of scarface than Macbeth.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe only other, fairly minor gripe I had was with the soundtrack.. which felt like it could have needed some more money/polishing/talent. Nice effort but not at all satisfying.”