The Tempest

Not a total disaster, but far from the best possible version of this story.

I quite liked it. I was really impressed by the performances of Helen Mirren, Djimon Hounsou and Ben Wishaw. Even Russell Brand wasn't bad. Visually, it was so stunning and amazing, I thought. Great cinematography and colours and visual effects. The ending of the story is a bit disappointing, but everything up until that is fantastic. If you like Shakespeare, I think it's worth a watch. If not, you probably wouldn't like it much.

This film got a lot of poor reviews, but I happen to disagree with them for the most part. I've seen a number of stage versions of the Tempest and I prefer this film to any of them. Mirren's performance is amazing as are many of the others and the special effects, while over-the-top, don't outshine the great use of language and specificity.

Anyone who has watched this and claimed to have known what was going on is a fucking liar. Gets 10 bonus points for having Beth Gibbons sing during the credits.

If you read the play first, the movie is going to be a great illustration of the story. Gender roles swap worked out brilliantly.

The visuals are a trip, but the rest of the film is too awkward for its own good and can't be saved by the more than competent cast. Russel Brand is once again damn near insufferable.

Everything that makes Shakespeare's final play a great expression of the dangers and risks of ambition in Western civilization is lost in this sex change.

Mirren and Strathairn give uncharacteristically wooden performances, and The Tempest is definitely not one of Shakespeare's stronger plays, but somehow the movie slugs along on its own inherent weirdness. The jarring editing and the ghastly looking CGI end up becoming rather charming in their complete inappropriateness.

I was never really fond of Shakespeare acts, but this was too much. Several special effects did not change the strong theatrical feeling.

The visuals are amazing, despite some effects being very bad. Good acting too, but the Shakespearean script doesn't work at all.

It's strange, the special effects weren't any good, but this film still had fantastic visuals. Also, Russell Brand was amazing.

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It was never meant for conversational or natural speech delivery. Without the Stage 'projection' the dialogue was too hard to understand so ditched it pretty early. Maybe worth a watch once familiar with another version.

Zipper, the prince wore, would not be invented until nineteenth century!

What the hell!

"Julie Taymor's new film version of The Tempest isn't as disastrous as it could have been, though it does fundamentally fail Shakespeare's play." - Aaron Cutler

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Don't believe the bad ratings!!!

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