Francesca Annis, John Stride, Jon Finch
A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord siezes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.
DVD Release Date: May 7, 2002
Stats: 370 reviews
The very real murder of Polanski's wife was the genesis of this ultra violent take on Shakespeare's finest play. A riveting spiral of hate, ambition and betrayal. great performance by Jon Finch.
Rich and thick as stew. A graphic introduction to Shakespeare in shocking display.
Not great, not bad. If you want to see Macbeth on film, there isn't much choice aside from Roman Polanski's version. Don't go out of your way to see it, but if you happen to stumble across it and you've just been dying to see a Macbeth movie (. . . riiight . . .) by all means, ...( read more)
Macbeth is creepy for all the wrong reasons. Roman Polanski real shows his genius turning into insanity with this appalling Shakespeare adaptation.
An adequate but uninspired work, Polanski's Macbeth is very faithful to the original text. The problem being that he brings nothing else to the table. The camera is not used in any particular manner, there is no true sense of growing tension and high drama, it simply meanders fro...( read more)
Movies are never as enjoyable when you have to watch them in school. I'll definitely give this one another chance.
The violent refelling of this classic story was commissioned and underwritten by publisher Hugh Hefner. I watched this William Shakespeare's tragedy tale when I was 17 with my old deaf class-mates for our English studies. Director Roman Polanski's 1971 film is grim yet compelling...( read more)
Well, I almost knew the script by heart, and I believe they followed it perfectly, I don't really get what the bashing about 'not saying' much that shakespeare put on his play, in my opinion it seemed like the script was followed thoroughly, and the blood was necessary... Macbeth did kill the people he killed... except perhaps the last five people, but, that was a nice fighting scene
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