Cymbeline
The gritty story of a take-no-prisoners war between dirty cops and outlaw bikers. When extortion, betrayal, and fiery passions threaten his criminal empire, a drug kingpin is driven to desperate measures.
27 March 1969, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
28 November 1950, Tenafly, New Jersey, USA
4 October 1989, Austin, Texas, USA
30 September 1950, Detroit, Michigan, USA
31 May 1973, Lisbon, Portugal
11 March 1989, Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
May 27, 2015
Cymbeline's familiar Elizabethan tropes do not translate well to a modern context, nor do the constant references to 'Caesar' or 'Romans.'
March 13, 2015
A conceptually weak and dramatically muddled mess that has acquired a game and good cast and then given them precious little to do.
March 12, 2015
"Cymbeline" has been branded a tragedy, a tragicomedy and a romance, and Mr. Almereyda embraces all three categories. The movie is by turns grim, grimly amusing and romantic, sometimes at once.
May 17, 2015
Michael Almereyda's modernized adaptation of Cymbeline comes to the screen with a number of flaws, including an overstuffed plot and a questionable structure.
May 20, 2016
Of course, Ed Harris as a leather-jacket-wearing biker monarch blasting away with an assault rifle gives Almereyda a solid base to work from.
March 23, 2015
What we get-a bitty and begrimed romance-has a lyrical sway of its own, and, even if some of the cast seem lost in the lines, Hawke returns to save the day, and the movie.
March 13, 2015
If too many filmmakers try to amp up the excitement in Shakespeare with movie magic, Almereyda goes to the opposite extreme in Cymbeline.
March 12, 2016
Almereyda is back at it fourteen years later with Cymbeline, a dramatically clunkier Shakespeare play, both in and of itself and for the challenges it presents to a modern adaptation.
March 14, 2015
Almereyda never gives us a reason why this particular Shakespeare story is relevant for today, and thus worthy of being retold. Perhaps he watched too much Sons of Anarchy?
March 12, 2015
The film has moments of real wit and stylish brutality, but its nods to modernity (motorcycles, iPads, Google) just feel like self-conscious stunts.
May 01, 2015
... strips down the Bard's narrative and ramps up the sex and violence, which is fine, but as with other such projects, the anachronistic dialogue is awkward and the storytelling is muddled and convoluted.
March 12, 2015
A mash-up of social media shortcomings and Shakespearean tragedy that becomes as much a tale of cinematic ambition gone awry as anything the Bard intended.
