Macbeth

2015 • 112 minutes

About this movie

From the Academy Award winning producers of The King’s Speech and acclaimed director Justin Kurzel, comes a visceral and visually breath-taking retelling of the classic tale about an ambitious Scottish lord who seizes the throne with the help of his wife. Starring Academy Award nominee Michael Fassbender and Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard, Macbeth is both visually epic and a breathtaking experience.

Ratings and reviews

I saw it on a school trip and was promised that it would be fantastic. It wasn't, it was possibly the most boring film I have ever seen in my entire life. Don't get me wrong, the acting is fantastic, but it is so poorly paced and so slow that I struggled to stay awake 😴😥😒

I'll be honest not a Shakespeare fan and the film has not changed that, only reinforced my view. Left the cinema halfway through watching it, it was that bad. I'm sure if you are a fan of Macbeth then you will probably enjoy it. To everyone else it was painful.

I love Macbeth. Somehow this adaptation makes it dull. Lady Macbeths role in the play is huge as she turns slowly mad. In this she goes out with a whimper. And the dialogue is kind of half Shakespearian and half EastEnders. If you need to see a movie of this watch the Roman Polanski version.