Give Joel Coen the credit. What he succeeded in doing is adapting the play into a very basic movie. He could have taped the play and tried to pass it off as a movie, but what he did was take the play and transformed it into a film at its raw.
It could have been some elaborate cinematic gesture filmed in some expensive location and using a CGI army, but he did not do that. As a result, Coen made something that grasped me visually.
Which is good cause I'm not a Shakespeare person. I give credit to all the actors for modernizing their tone which made it easier to go down but getting to focus on the beauty of the production design was great.
Denzel was Denzel, that's a given but I like a lot of the performances of the other actors in the film as well. Then again, it's more that I'm impress by how easy some of these dudes can recite this stuff without me giggling over how they sound.
On top of the visuals, it also helps that this is one of Shakespeare's tragedies. A lot of messed up stuff happen in the flick, and I must admit that made me interested in watching as well.
I did enjoy what I saw greatly.
It could have been some elaborate cinematic gesture filmed in some expensive location and using a CGI army, but he did not do that. As a result, Coen made something that grasped me visually.
Which is good cause I'm not a Shakespeare person. I give credit to all the actors for modernizing their tone which made it easier to go down but getting to focus on the beauty of the production design was great.
Denzel was Denzel, that's a given but I like a lot of the performances of the other actors in the film as well. Then again, it's more that I'm impress by how easy some of these dudes can recite this stuff without me giggling over how they sound.
On top of the visuals, it also helps that this is one of Shakespeare's tragedies. A lot of messed up stuff happen in the flick, and I must admit that made me interested in watching as well.
I did enjoy what I saw greatly.