This is one of the corniest films I've ever seen and I can't decide whether that's intentional or not, everything from the editing to the sound design feels like it's some dumb action film and this works brilliantly in the opening scene, a great action set piece. The scene revels in this corniness and it works perfectly to create an atmosphere of care free fun, the film really falls down for me though when it try's to move in a more earnest, heartfelt, direction. The film continues feeling like a dumb action film but has characters spouting long monologues about love and life all in the original old English, this messes up the mood of the film for me and brings it crashing down into what feels like a pretentious mess. The acting is alright though and it is better than some of the versions that stick more diligently to the original story, still it could have been a lot better if they'd strayed further from Shakespeare's original story which I don't think holds up nowadays. 7/10 :)
Review of Romeo + Juliet
