Macbeth

By: Damien Worst
Date: 27th Sep 06
Format: Cinema
Mood: Leave brain at home

What:
Macbeth

Where:
Most major cinemas

Watch the trailer:
here

When word has it that your country’s film industry is putting $3.5million into a production directed by Geoffrey Wright, starring astrong cast of Australian acting talent and written by Shakespeare - you expect big things.

Macbeth is definitely big, but in all the wrong places. The gun-fights are big, the words are big, even the cast’s wardrobe is well, big. But not once does the film ever resonate past a big flop.

Maybe we expect too much, maybe it’s a case of poor casting, or maybe it’s the fact that throughout the film everyone from Macbeth (SamWorthington) to McDuff (Lachy Hulme) appears to be ‘performingShakespeare’, instead of speaking real words that denote real emotions.

ThreeThousand was unsure whether to even peg this review. There’s so much to get excited about in our creative city, there are also some beautiful films bearing the Australian stamp. So we say this, go see Macbeth, be it at the cinema or on DVD. See it and if you’re involved in film on any level, create something brilliant to counter it.