Title: Good! Makes Tarantino Look Tame
Product review: This ambitious adaptation of a Shakespearean play tranlates very well to the big screen. It has a great cast, with Anthony Hopkins in the title role.The blending of Ancient Rome and the modern world in the set and the costumes is surprisingly effective -- Roman armour and weapons fit in perfectly beside cars, microphones and other modern props. The on-again, off-again "play within a play" idea was annoying and never really went anywhere, but it wasn't shoved in the viewer's face too much.Beautiful as it is, the film is a disturbing parade of violence and cruelty that makes most horror films look tame by comparison. In this, it is true to the play on which it was based, and the Shakespearean dialogue actually lends a certain creepy respectability to what would otherwise be a spectacle of depravity.
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