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Title: 70's horror film, okay - but Shakespeare it' s not.
Review: If you're looking for blood and a little Playboy-style nudity, this Hefner/Polanski version is the film for you; but if you want to see acting or Shakespeare, go for the Ian McKellan/Judi Dench performance instead.Polanski cuts & skips the text to allow more screen time for gore, & clearly doesn't trust the actors to carry the drama, stepping on their key speeches & shooting the actors from behind or at a distance in key scenes; soliloquies are delivered as voice-overs while the actors stare at the camera as if wondering what to have for dinner. Surely no one with any respect for acting or for Shakespeare would stage the "dagger of the mind" speech by having Macbeth chase a cheesy special-effect day-glo dagger all over the set!
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