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Title: Skip this one...
Review: I really tried to like this movie. In fact, I have enjoyed several other modern remakes of Shakespeare's plays. This one just doesn't work. The movie setting is today's world while the diaglogue is from Shakespeare's time. The dialogue was hard to understand. This resulted in many of the double entendres being lost in the mush. I hope that the movie producers saved a lot of money. They didn't have to hire a clever scriptwriting staff.The settings for this movie were terrible. The mansions were trying to look like castles and modern houses all at the same time. Again, this didn't work.I also think Dicaprio was miscast. He seemed too inexperienced to play the role of Romeo. His lines sounded forced, and his emotions were often overacted.Skip this one, and see the 1968 version instead. Better yet, attend a live performance.
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