Chimes at Midnight
It’s fine, I guess. I’m not much of a Shakespeare fan, so I’m hardly the best judge of a movie based off his work. If you come to this looking for the innovation and trickery and brilliance of Welles’ non-Shakespeare work, you won’t find it. This is shot plainly and directly, and acted just as such. That’s not to say anything bad about it, just that it is what it presents itself to be; a straight-forward amalgamation of several of The Bard’s works, placing Falstaff as a central character, amidst the backdrop of the changeover from Henry IV to Henry V. The many speeches can get tiresome, but there’s always energy to them. I just don’t connect much with the material.
Mini Review: It’s fine, I guess. I’m not much of a Shakespeare fan, so I’m hardly the best judge of a movie based off his work. If you come to this looking for the innovation and trickery and brilliance of Welles’ non-Shakespeare work, you won’t find it. This is shot plainly and directly, and acted just as such. That’s not to say anything bad about it, just that it is what it presents itself to be; a straight-forward amalgamation of several of The Bard’s works, placing Falstaff as a central character, ami...
