I hated this movie and I don’t know why. I watched it; had no idea the whole time what was going on. I get there was this guy, Caius Martius Coriolanus played by Ralph Fiennes who was just wreaking all kinds of havoc against Gerard Butler a.k.a. in this film as Tullus Aufidius. I could squeeze out of the story line that the movie is based in Rome. And that Coriolanus despises the citizens of Rome and that he is trying to exterminate them.? I wasn’t sure if I should be placing a period at the end of that sentence to show my confidence of the statement or a question mark because I’m still confused.
The dialogue was the deal breaker here. It seemed to be written in a Shakespearean style. Meaning, it was complicated, overdone and so, so dramatic. The movie watchers who would appreciate such dialogue probably will never see such a movie because they spend all of their time reading books and watching live plays with true authentic thespians!
Just as I thought! After a few minutes of online research, this indeed is a screen play based off of a Shakespeare play. I called it. The only reason why I understand such screen plays as Othello and Romeo and Juliet is because the concepts have been played out for me over and over since grade school. I have never even heard of Coriolanus before watching this movie. So…
