All is True (2018)

[Drunk Monk]

Branagh can be annoying but he does read Shakespeare well.  And Dench and McKellen in a elegy for Shakespeare's final years and you've got... well, an artsy fartsy exercise in too much Branagh.  His make up is cool.  And this is a Shakespearean actor's film, with tight face shots on long emotionally complex renditions of Shakespearean soliloquys in long single takes.  But it's bogged down by its vision, which is awkward camera angles and really darkly shot scenes as if to emulate faded Rembrandts.  Plus it's a major buzzkill.  I love Willy and to learn this story, the tale of his final years, is really a bummer.  Sure, he wrote the world's greatest plays but he sacrificed his family in the process.  They just needed to have Branagh, Dench & McKellen recite Shakes (McKellen's scene is so tangential and spurious - it's like they just wanted to stick him in there somewhere). What a drag.  

No sword fights although there is a silhouette of one but that hardly counts.  Not DOOM recommended.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

I watched The Debt Collector instead. It was Shakespearean.

[Drunk Monk]

I watched The Debt Collector instead. It was Shakespearean.

fair. 

you should write a review here.  start a review thread for once for us.  

i should watch that since again, i seem to know one of the actors who is the villain in the sequel.  i always know the villains.  usually the villains i know are friends, but this one, she's a piece o work.  did i tell that story here? if not, i shall someday - it's a major DOOM eyes only tale.  i know cf knows it.