O Reviews

The late Roger Ebert was my all-time favorite movie critic and 95% of the time, I agreed with him or I was able see from where he was coming from but, sometimes, for some of his reviews, we really had some different opinions. This movie is pretty good example. I mean, I really wanted to like this movie but I wasn’t able to connect with this flick at all. Indeed, back in the 90’s, there was this fad of making some modern adaptations of some plays written by Shakespeare (see also ‘Romeo + Juliet’ or ‘Hamlet’ from 2000) and, to be honest, I never cared for this phenomenom and since none of these movies became really succesfull, I guess I wasn’t the only one to feel that way. Anyway, coming back to our main feature, the whole thing just seemed way too convoluted and, in my opinion, the dialogs and the situations just didn't fit the setting at all. At least, I have to admit that Josh Harnett gave a pretty good performance but, a part from that, there was nothing much interesting to see here. To conclude, even though the whole thing had some potential, I didn’t really like it and I don’t think it is really worth a look.