Fine Shakespeare adaptation harks back to the 70s BBC productions in terms of its minimalist production values (and occasionally wobbly supporting performances) - as the expected showcase for its leading man, it is a terrific, invigorating experience, with Hopkins capturing the brutal power (and sad pathos) of Lear; perhaps unexpectedly, Broadbent all but steals it as an especially pompous Gloucester. Thompson and Watson are fine, but perhaps not as incendiary as you might expect.

If you're going to adapt a famous political thriller that involves the invasion of a country, try spending more than ten dollars on it. This production is so incredibly cash-strapped that its action sequences consist quite literally of military stock footage, cut together so disorientingly that they're hoping you won't stop and notice. The rest of the time, it's Hopkins grumbling iambic pentameter with a drab, House of Cards style color grade laid atop him. An atrocious, incoherent adaptation.

Quite good adaptation of Shakespeare's drama. I wasn't satisfied with the portrayal of Edmund, though. Apart from that as always, the opening half of King Lear has a very strong narrative and then it slowly drifts into the depiction of horror and misery. Expect no happy endings here.

This is a really tense and engrossing watch. I loved that its set in a contemporary setting - in modern day London and Anthony Hopkins gives a really stellar performance as the titular character. The cast is very strong and it was a strong, solid watch. I'm not especially a fan of Shakespeare plays per se and this does come across, inevitably, as a play in a film setting but its by no means dull or boring and dry, thankfully.

Reasonable adaptation, with the militarised aesthetic that seems to be required for 21st-century Shakespeare movies (though, to be fair, war is of course a theme of the play). Hopkins is watchable as usual but there's not enough variation in his performance: the mad Lear wandering around the heath does not seem very different from the Lear we see at the start.

1) TEXT: I don't see the use in cutting lines and then put 5 minutes of war and a boxing match 2) SETTING: It is too discordant from the text. A modern setting but hereditary absolute power, saying charachters say "knights" and point at soldiers, way too discordant. 3) ACTING: Great. Every single one of the actors (expecially Hopkins, Thompson and Scott) did a great job. I'm sad it was wasted in this adaptation.

Shekaspeare'in en hüzünlü kral trajedisi. Üç kızına, İngiltere'yi bağışlayan yaşlı kral, küçük kızının sevgisini görmemesi üzerine dışlanır. İki kızının, kral babasına bakmak istememesi, kralı sefil 1 hayat bekler. Bütün karakterlerin öldüğü 1 trajedi. Emma Thompson olmak üzere oyuncular ders veriyorlar. Fakat fazla tiyatral, filmi yorucu 1 hale getirmiş. Sinekler neyse yaramaz oğlanlara, bizde oyuz tanrılara, öldürüyorlar bizi keyifleri için.

not bad !