A very difficult and rare thing is achieved in this movie : Shakespeare is made entertaining and easy to understand, even in it's 400 year old dialect. Pacino does even more for Shakespeare than Orson Welles did 35 years before him. That said though, the movie seems to have been made in the editing room, quite how much of it's success is down to Pacino, and how much is to the credit of the editor is debatable. If you can't stand Shakespeare, then this is the movie for you.
(Just so you know, Shakespeare was the front man for Christopher Marlowe, a gay Brit exiled in Italy for political reasons. Don't believe me ? Go watch the documentary "Much ado about something")
(Just so you know, Shakespeare was the front man for Christopher Marlowe, a gay Brit exiled in Italy for political reasons. Don't believe me ? Go watch the documentary "Much ado about something")