Genre(s) Drama Director(s) Rupert Goold Cast includes Sir Patrick Stewart, Kate Fleetwood, Suzanne Burden, Polly Frame, Ben Carpenter, Oliver Burch. Macbeth... a member of the one percent who got it all though his actions as a violent, unrelenting and un-apologetic warrior.... an accomplished killer. 12 out of 16 found this helpful. 0 out of 3 found this helpful.
Macbeth was one of my first Shakespeares, and is a really powerful play in its own right not just in the language and some of the imagery but also in the characters and especially the story.

I get the point that other reviewers have made, a lot of Shakespeare's works do work in a modern setting.

This version of Macbeth, the "Scottish play", doesn't feel particularly Scottish, more Orwellian, and Patrick Stewart plays the central character less as an opportunistic chancer out of his depth, and more as a deranged psychopathic tyrant: if the film resembles any other, it's 'Downfall', the story of the last days of Hitler. Was this review helpful? Kate Fleetwood (Goold's wife) is an excellent Lady Macbeth. This does not detract from the original play; the climatic fight between Macbeth and Macduff is done via knives, right after he thoroughly douses himself in alcohol and prepares for death. 42 out of 48 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? This performance will not stand the test of time in the same way that Ian McClellan's Richard III will. However, once he murdered the king and assumed the throne, he discovered that he did not know how to govern.

As always when watching Shakespeare, one is stunned by the sheer number of brilliant phrasings that have entered general usage from his works. Was this review helpful? The pyrotechnics of the performers ends up drowning out the simplicity and directness of Shakespeare's message: the guilt of conscience placing limits on blind ambition. It's set it Soviet Russia, with Macbeth as a Stalin-like figure, engendering imagery that is both horrifying and picture-perfectly realized. 9 out of 10 found this helpful. This BBC production is upsetting, unnerving, often horrifying, unforgettable, and very difficult with which to find flaw. Characters are brutally executed, and the murder of Lady Macduff and her children is greatly disturbing, even though you see almost nothing happen. Real human ambition & regret & resolve are actively demonstrated--no grand pronouncements. Was this review helpful? As always when watching Shakespeare, one is stunned by the sheer number of brilliant phrasings that have entered general usage from his works. Nicol Williamson in the BBC version was very underwhelming to me, although Jane Lapotaire as Lady Macbeth was at least as good as, perhaps better than, Francesca Annis in the Polanski version. Was this review helpful? Shot on location in the mysterious underground labyrinth of Welbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire, this is a contemporary presentation of Shakespeare's intense, claustrophobic and bloody drama. It ranks with Ian McKellen's Richard III (1994/5) as a definitive production in an "updated" setting. The richness of Shakespeare's plays, and the vagueness of their settings, lends them to many adaptations and interpretations. Plot: A nobleman murders and usurps his King before being destroyed by his enemies and himself Every line of verse in this production makes sense, is clearly revealed in its meaning by the use of images, and when the monologues are delivered to the camera, you get it, you follow, you never drift off from the usual 'yadda yadda' quality that the longer speeches, even beautifully pronounced by European players, can induce in all but scholars.
1 out of 2 found this helpful. 1 out of 2 found this helpful. But to me, it only works if you also update the dialogue.

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