- Actors: Jason Connery, Helen Baxendale, Graham McTavish, Kenneth Bryans, Kern Falconer
- Directors: Jeremy Freeston
- Writers: Jeremy Freeston, Bob Carruthers, William Shakespeare
- Producers: Bob Carruthers, David McWhinnie, Gary Russell, George Mitchell
- Format: PAL
- Region: All Regions
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 12
- Studio: Cromwell
- DVD Release Date: 25 Aug 2003
- Run Time: 129 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0000505IQ
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 153,789 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Actual adaptation of Macbeth for once...,
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This review is from: Macbeth (1997) [DVD] (DVD)
It's nice to see an actual adaptation of Macbeth for once. The acting is all up to standard and directing all seems decent.
This adaptation finally takes the Macbeth script literally as opposed to throwing it around and putting it into whatever setting they can think of (Drug lords? Vietnam? AN ESTATE IN BIRMINGHAM?), not that this determines it's quality but unlike Romeo & Juliet I don't think this story works in different scenarios. It's also worth mentioning the modesty of this version - like the play, we never see the violent killing of the king, just Macbeth returning from the room, blood on hands, with the line "I have done the deed". Again, a stabbing scene doesn't determine a bad movie but the modesty of not including one when it would be so tempting to is admirable. You won't find hundreds of old, naked witches here, nor will you see blood splattering all over the walls (They showed us that BBC adaptation when I was in school, and called it educational! Try showing a modern story with that amount of blood and nudity to kids and you'll find yourself in trouble), you won't see football hooligans, Vietnam soldiers or drug lords, this is just pure Macbeth. It may not be perfection, but it's satisfying.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Trying not to damn with faint praise,
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This review is from: Macbeth (1997) [DVD] (DVD)
Was this a made-for-TV production? Erm.
I don't think this performance of Macbeth gives you much in the sense of a real story because the actors don't use the language. Some nice visuals made me want to watch the Lord of the Rings instead. Not all bad. You have to know the story before watching any adaptation so read it first, then watch the Polanski version.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Macbeth the DVD,
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This review is from: Macbeth (1997) [DVD] (DVD)
Many amazon reviewers have made their criticisms of this version of Macbeth and I find no need to add to that discussion. MACBETH is my favourite work by Shakespeare and any version is of interest to me.
What this review is about is the actual DVD. First it should be mentioned that this is a dutch import Region 2 disc. The good news is that it does have removable dutch subtitles but no english subtitles. Unfortunately that is the only good news for this disc. The specifications list this disc as 16x9 widescreen letterbox. This is quite untrue. On a 4x3 television with the 4x3 setting this widescreen effect is achieved by squashing the image down to a 1.75:1 widescreen format. This makes this Macbeth look like Macbeth the hobbit, with shortened bodies and flattened faces. To restore the image to a watchable format the setting on a 4x3 tv must then be set to 16x9 to correct the squashed effect and of course this creates a full frame (pan and scan) image. This image and the print shows multiple artifacts, print damage, hairs and grain. What you are left with is a VHS quality transfer. Unlike a reviewer mentioned asian issue, audio sync is okay, but certainly not 5.1 standards. The 'making of' featurette on this issue is also a furphy. It is simply 19 minutes on the most well known scenes from the story and is most annoyingly in the correct widescreen format, as is the trailer. The 150 minute running time is also deceptive. The feature is 92.22 minutes, the trailer is 2.15 minutes. This is, for me, a fine version of Macbeth but as a DVD, Caveat Emptor.
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