Cymbeline

March. 13,2015      R
Rating:
3.7
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Trailer Synopsis Cast

War erupts between dirty cops and outlaw bikers as a drug kingpin tries to protect his empire.

Ed Harris as  Cymbeline
Dakota Johnson as  Imogen
Milla Jovovich as  Queen
Ethan Hawke as  Iachimo
Penn Badgley as  Posthumus
Anton Yelchin as  Cloten
Bill Pullman as  Sicilius Leonatus
John Leguizamo as  Pisanio
Spencer Treat Clark as  Guiderius
Peter Gerety as  Dr. Cornelius

Reviews

Alicia
2015/03/13

I love this movie so much

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Linbeymusol
2015/03/14

Wonderful character development!

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Pluskylang
2015/03/15

Great Film overall

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Usamah Harvey
2015/03/16

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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aprilmay-75879
2015/03/17

before I finally shut it off. There art nay words to pray pardon me how awful this movie is. For the most part I thought it was a joke, or that something was going to happen and it would turn into a real movie eventually. I came here before renting and the summary seemed pretty decent, and the cast looks amazing! The IMDb summary is completely misleading having never heard of this movie before (and now I know why I hadn't). I'm a little upset I paid 4 bucks to rent this. That's 4 dollars and 45 minutes I can't get back. And I'm more upset about the 45 minutes. The summary NEEDS to say something about it being an attempt to modernize a Shakespeare...something - or whatever it was attempting to do. I seriously have never seen anything so horrible in my life - I find it near incomprehensible why anyone would even mildly consider producing something like this. I feel like I should cry a little bit over all the time and money wasted on this mess.

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SteveJ_888
2015/03/18

This movie is a big disappointment, not because it didn't meet my expectations, but because I couldn't even watch it.Ed Harris is one of my favorite actors, and the description of the movie on the DVD box sounded pretty good. It didn't say though that "a modern retelling of Shakespeare's timeless tragedy" meant that the dialog would be Shakespeare's original Early Modern English used in a modern setting.Of course not. Otherwise, who in their right mind would want to watch it? What were the people who made this movie thinking? I still respect the actors who appeared in this feature. I'll call it temporary insanity.When I first heard the Early Modern English, I thought "this has got to be for effect at the start of the movie – surely it will switch over to regular dialog any moment." When it didn't, I jumped to the next chapter, and the next chapter, and the next chapter … You have got to be kidding me! It seems many viewers feel the same based on the low user rating.I'm so grateful that I didn't go to see this movie in a theater. If I had, I might have been compelled to stick it out. Come to think of it, it would have been the ultimate experience for a first date. You would probably get married and have something to laugh about for the rest of your lives together! I'm not going to rate or comment further on a movie I didn't watch. By the way, I almost never bail on a movie – about one in every 500 or so.I could not endure to watch it. Maybe thou can.

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bbickley13-921-58664
2015/03/19

I knew I was going to see it when I saw the poster in my local theater, and when I read the summary, I was hooked.Ethan Hawk as a cop at war with a biker gang who's leader is played by Ed Harris. That sounds like a winner.The movie had the gritty tone of an early 80s action movie thanks to the electronic music that simmers through the picture. Someone is definitely paying homage to the 80's which is in right now.Than the Shakespearean dialog begins to break out, which started to make what I thought would be just a mediocre gritty tale with an all-star cast, far more interesting.What I like about this adaptation of William Shakespeare is that the actors were reading the lines with their own dialect. It was not done like it was a stage play they made it like a movie.Best example is with John Leguizamo who delivered the lines of big Willie with the attitude of the Latino raised New Yorker he is. Too bad he did not have more lines in the movie, after all this is not his first time adapting Shakespeare to the big screen.Like the Leguizamo starring Romeo and Juliet, Cymbeline is a bit sir-realistic. This was done as a way to stay true to the play it was adapted from and yet give it the modern day twist of being set in the present, with Rome being portrayed as a contemporary metropolitan and Ed Harris character status as the leader of the biker gang being treated like Royalty. I think I would have preferred a little more looseness with the adaptation in order to make it more original, but that's a small pet peeve to an otherwise entertaining movie.

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Ryan Prince
2015/03/20

-Cymbeline (2015) movie review: -Cymbeline is a film adaptation of the work by Shakespeare of the same name. I have never read the original, and because I did not have a clue what was going on in the film, I cannot summarize the plot as usual.-I have seen other films that updated the source materials but kept the dialogue the same, and I have not liked any of them. So to emphasize my point, I am going to attempt to write the rest of this review in that of ye olde Shakespeare.-The story is left inarticulate upon the dialect of old, and events happen yonder with a purpose none.-The pace is of an unhurried mountain.-Not Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris, John Leguizamo, Anton Yelchin, Mila Jovovick, Dakota Johnson, and Penn Badgley of noble thespians could relinquish a burden laid heavy by discourse of old.-Misperception flourished whence happenings of thine own charismas was.-Piercing sounds penetrated mine own ears throughout by the score of said performance.-Dost thou look nobly at the value and quake, yet none can undertake accomplishment in this piece, for the apprise of situation without the apprise of discourse bestows incomprehension throughout the all-inclusive picture. As nothing cannot tie in to nothing, Cymbeline cannot share the benefit of being so worth the time of it as slight.-As I bid it goodbye a final time, my final talk of all can be said is of the rating, being R for a violent passage in thus.-Hast seen Cymbeline of you? See what I mean about the dialogue? Yeah it made the entire film suck.

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