Macbeth, the new one.
Good points - looked good, almost Kurasawa level of looks good. Good acting by and large, Lady M especially. Good dark age feel aided by the genuine Scotish accents. The witches were another high spot. Fantastic Scottish scenery - Skye and perhaps elsewhere.
But, playing (rather cheesy) cod celtic music over some of the speeches - not so sensible if you actually want to here the words - hey it's Shakespeare - the words are the thing !
Banquo's ghost scene - hard to follow, i dare say baffling to anyone who didn't know the play. Whole thing quite hard to follow if you don't know what's what I suspect. Shame they cut "double double toil and trouble" too, some of the other cuts fair enough (eg the door man scene) which perhaps helps the serious feel of this version.
And the biggest problem of all - it drags! This takes some doing - Macbeth is an action play which rattles along and has and needs pace.
Brave but unsucessful -essentially a lot of it is a bit like a reading of the text with background images. Works, arguably, for.Prospero's books - Grrenaway's take on the Tempest, but not so much here.
So 8/10 for effort, maybe 5/10 as a movie
