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Reviewed by jwv-823-79715 7 / 10

Popularized Shakespeare for a wide audience

This is a great popularized and verbally simplified version of Shakespeare for a wide audience with a top-notch cast. Especially Al Pacino's performance is genuinely moving, in his assuming the role of an embittered and torn old man, with superior feel for emotional shift and outstanding voice-acting. Lynn Collins also convinces with a good performance. The soundtrack is likable, light and strangely enchanting, and the scenery is beautiful.The movie does a great job of complicating the character of Shylock, and makes the viewer question his role as a victim or a villain. In the end, nobody will feel unmoved by the truly excellent and genuinely poignant court scene.The courting prices are shallow stereotypes and constitute the only kind of (unintentional) humour this otherwise dry movie brings. I do not understand the choice of not giving the play-appropriated importance and weight in consequence to the casket-scenes. This is strange, since the movie is clearly a dramatized version of the play, and else there is not much that distinguishes Portia from a common harlot when every man can come make his suit without consequence. It saddens me to see the superficiality of these scenes, because Shakespeare did provide more complex and sympathetic characters in the original.

Reviewed by ma-cortes 7 / 10

Excellent and well set rendition about Shakespeare ¨pound of flesh¨ story

This British-US-Italian co-production is set in 16th century, Venice. It's a taking on Shakespeare book based on ¨pound of flesh¨ drama, focusing a tale of religious and social prejudice, where the Jew Shylock gets its vengeance in a money loan .(Jeremy Irons) Antonio's friend Bassanio(Joseph Fiennes)is in love and needs money to go courting Portia(Lynn Collins.) Antonio borrows money from ambitious and revenger Shylock. Then, Shylock's daughter named Jessica(Zuleikha Robinson) runaway home with all jewels and money. The Jew Shylock(Al Pacino) has a long memory of oppression but vendetta isn't so sweet and reclaims repayment over Antonio's flesh. Shylock becomes furious and is extremely motived by the injustices of life as Jew. Meanwhile the trial is assembled and Portia goes into action to save Antonio.This very enjoyable film is a balance of both, tragedy and comedy. As is both delightful, disturbing and dramatically marvellous. Al Pacino delivers a wonderfully complex and dark performance. His portrayal is pretty watchable and absolutely memorable, he's a Shakespeare expert , like he proved in ¨Looking for King Richard III¨ which he starred and and directed. I found particularly nice the way the film handled the court rivalry , the antagonism between them and final result. The movie packs an evocative musical score by Jocelyn Pock(Eye wide shut) and colorful cinematography by Benoit Delhomme, director's usual cameraman. The motion picture is well directed by Michael Radford. Another adaptation about this known book are mostly made for TV, these are the following : 1973 with Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright and Jeremy Brett ; 1980 by Jack Gold with Warren Mitchell and John Rhys Davies ; 2001 by Trevor Nunn with Henry Goodman. And by Orson Welles with Oja Kodar but was scrapped and pretended to release with other of his unfinished movies, though never completed when the negatives were mysteriously lost. I would recommend this picture to anybody interested by Shakespeare.

Reviewed by shanfloyd 8 / 10

Pacino's excellent in this perfect adaptation.

Mr. Radford had taken up a daunting task to make a perfect film adaptation of this classic. But he got on his side enough budget, a superb cast and a brilliant screenplay. And so he succeeds to come out with one of the best film adaptations of Shakespeare. Radford gets an original take on anti-Semitism. From the very opening of the film it is quite evident. Many stage versions of the play portray Shylock as the uni-directional villain. But the tragic-hero Shylock, a victim of Christian-Jew sentiments that we always crave for is totally present in Radford's vision. But Radford needed an actor to work it out completely. And he got the best candidate.Dustin Hoffman reportedly wanted to play Shylock in this film. I can't say how he would do; but Pacino's performance is enough to experience the character's every essence. The way he says "And for these courtesies I am to lend you money" , the way he screams "I want her dead at my feet" , the way he shows impatience when Antonio says his last words to Bassanio in the courtroom are unforgettable touches of his genius. On the other hand Jeremy Irons gives a flat performance as Antonio who is also a complex character. Same can be said about Joseph Fieness's Bassanio. What fascinated me is Lynn Collins' take on Portia. This virtually unheard classic beauty captures the character's intelligence quite nicely.It is rated R for some nudity. I think those shots add effectively to the beauty of this film. I'd certainly recommend young people to watch this film. Because even the most avid Shakespeare-lover would be proud to see such an adaptation.

The Merchant of Venice

2004

Action / Drama / Romance

The Merchant of Venice

2004

Action / Drama / Romance

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Popularized Shakespeare for a wide audience

Excellent and well set rendition about Shakespeare ¨pound of flesh¨ story

Pacino's excellent in this perfect adaptation.

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