Macbeth
Truly Indie | Release Date: June 15, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
51
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
4
Negative:
4

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
The words belong to Mr. Shakespeare. All else in this Macbeth is the pleasurably fevered invention of brash Australian director Geoffrey Wright. Read full review
80
The New York TimesMatt Zoller Seitz
For four centuries William Shakespeare’s plays have been reinvented to fit contemporary sensibilities. But few recent efforts can match the Australian writer and director Geoffrey Wright’s brutal and thrilling new version. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterMegan Lehmann
This is Shakespeare as action film --- furiously paced and unapologetically cinematic. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderAlbert Williams
Thoughtful, sexually charged, and sometimes brutal, this Australian drama by director Geoffrey Wright updates the setting of Shakespeare's play but stays true to its themes, offering fresh insight into the characters and verse. Read full review
67
Seattle Post-IntelligencerBill White
Although the film is entertaining, its cleverness is not enough to cover its shortcomings. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubTasha Robinson
It's Macbeth by way of “The Covenant,” all brooding pretty-boys with emo eyes and hipster hair, standing around in gauzily decorated rich-kid boudoirs in the dead of night, and at times, it's too overblown to take seriously. Read full review
63
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
The famous soliloquies are heard in voice-over -- a risky idea that works -- and Wright has found clever ways of naturalizing the play's more supernatural elements. Read full review
60
EmpireDavid Parkinson
Poetic but bleekly pessimistic version of the Danish tragedy. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleRuthe Stein
Visually, the film is a stunner, dotted with psychedelic colors and many shades of red -- one battle is fought with red laser-gun sights -- some looking realistically like blood. When gangsters open fire, their falls are choreographed like a ballet. The problem comes when the cast opens its mouth and Elizabethan dialogue tumbles out. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleJosh Rosenblatt
Best just to say Macbeth is coming down hard and leave it at that. Read full review
40
VarietyRichard Kuipers
Something indeed wicked this way comes in a mangled Macbeth set in contempo gangland Melbourne. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
It's all very "Scarface"--the De Palma remake of "Scarface," not the Hawks original. In other words, it doesn't feel modern at all. It feels about a generation late and 400 years short. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust
The film is strictly straight-to-video action movie stuff, albeit with dialogue in iambic pentameter. Read full review
30
Village VoiceBrian Miller
The rush into gunfights and car chases pushes the text in all the wrong directions. As written, the 400-year-old words are still fresher than anything ripped from “Miami Vice.” Read full review
25
New York PostKyle Smith
Say hello to my leetle dagger! Shakespeare meets "Scarface" in an Aussie adaptation of "Macbeth" gone gangsta. Read full review
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