Overall a good version of the Shakespearian romantic comedy, but it lets itself down in places. The Dogberry scenes were awful, Keaton is probably the worst type of actor for that role-he was just plain stupid. The character's word confusions, and all of Shakespeare's intended humour was lost. Also Robert Sean Leonard's portrayal of Claudio was relatively poor, some of the tragedy scenes were unintentionally funny! However The duo of Benedick and Beatrice held the piece together, aided, surprisingly, by Reeves as Don John. The movie is a good introduction to the play, however there are better versions out there.
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