i mean it i got interested into this film after reading some reviews & the poster looked cool even the story sounded awesome its not Hollywood its from Australian cinema i have read Shakespeare & seen a few films based on his plays & as someone on the boards here said in a sarcastic manner that this guy Shakespeare writes the best movies ever of course that is true i agree Shakespeare maybe gone centuries ago but his legacy continues however when you adapt something from someone who is considered a legend in literature you need to be careful it is not joke honestly William Shakespeare will never be the same again this has created a bad impact on my mind.Macbeth 2006 is a film adapted from one of the plays Shakespeare wrote this is a modern take on it i mean the guns,girls,gangs etc usual stuff thrown in just for the attraction it focuses more on the style then substance i found the grittiness & sharpness in the characters absolutely missing they are so dull i mean anyone who has ever read Shakespeare will agree that this film tried to mock him.the plot:Macbeth is a drug-lord/gangster who is the leader of one of the gangs in Melbourne Australia this is the story of how he falls.look at here these guys didn't even show his rise to the top there is no back story or whatever of how he became a bad guy they simply made him extra tragic then he ever was the script was good but ruined by terrible direction Macbeth lives in a large mansion with heavy security hes got witches & his very own lady Macbeth.Macbeth dresses more like a playboy or film star then a gangster his love angle with lady Macbeth is rather weird then interesting just how can Macbeth got to other ugly women when he has the hottest lady Macbeth with him the guy is dumb or what he makes wrong choices most of the time no wonder he ends up in a mess.the cast:Sam Worthington looks hot here long hair style suits him this was before he came to Hollywood i saw him in avatar 2009 great actor but sadly he is misused here,rest cast is wasted except few women but the one that deserves getting mentioned is Victoria Hill this lady is stunning & beautiful plus she can act damn well too i wish she was more famous.if anyone is expecting this to be a stylish slick flick get ready to be disappointed this does feature gunfight,car chases & some sex & nudity but the who project is badly shot the camera work is awful it looks like a below average 90s porno film with unnecessary blood the only good thing are the kissing scenes between Macbeth & lady Macbeth that is the only time camera sits down properly other then that rest of the film is shaky cam or gorilla style & too dark have these guys ever heard of lights i mean common & who is the sound mixer of this film the music completely overshadows the dialogs a lot of background noise i simply lost interest in this film but kept watching only because of Victoria Hill & Sam Worthington it got me bored.the film can't decide which genre it wants to be in the constant shifting of tones was annoying it is one weird movie i tell you bad guys can summon themselves out of nowhere as for Macbeth one moment he is sad & another he is instantly hitting the clubs & going to parties just what was going on here the filmmakers tired to blend way too much Gothic themes in here & failed i kept thinking who is Macbeth supposed to be is he even a human or some vampire this film just wanted to be something like director Tim Burton makes.Overall Macbeth 2006 will go down in history as a desperate & most terrible idea to adapt a Shakespeare play into the big screen my rating is 3/10.

Geoffrey Wright's modern rendition of Shakespeare's Macbeth does little credit to the Jacobean genius. From start to finish the film distracts from the plot line, the language is confusing, and the screenplay is pointlessly violent. Sam Worthington plays the drug lord of Melbourne Macbeth and Victoria Hill plays his, perse, open minded wife, but it does seem that Miss Hill has an obsession with her anatomy that diverts our attention from the poor acting. Duncan (pre-death) is the drug lord slaughtered by Macbeth, sparking the non-stop bloodbath reminiscent of the SAW franchise. Macbeth then begins an unnecessarily brutal killing spree claiming friends, women and children alike. The film culminates to feeble shootout between Macduff's (Lachy Halme) henchmen and Macbeth's cronies. All thanks to Macbeth's psychotic need to kill women and children of course. Note the disturbingly perverse pleasure that the assassins take in their deaths. One appears to climax as he kills Mrs Macduff. Nice.The film, amazingly, is a total disaster, Shakespeares tragedy concerns love and ambition, and the characters are strangely moving. This rendition is moving-to the bathroom. Wright sees fit to play upon tiresome clichés such as; amorous school-girl-witches, who seduce men twice their age on foggy dance floors; angry gun toting Australians;and blood splattering at the screen at every second turn. If only it were in 3-D.Macbeth is instead shown with a 'Jack Sparrow' attitude-a swagger, and an affiliation for "rum and salty WITCHES" (At World's End). Only Macbeth isn't funny and yes, he solves problems by shooting them, he does so with none of the grace or finesse of our Captain. All Macbeth does that IS canon to an ambitious, violent, superstitious tyrant-king is that he IS violent. He makes up for the lack of the other attributes with that. Which isn't helped by the confusing and pointless Jacobean dialogue. Had Miss Hill decided against using "Ye Olde English" the film may have been a minor success, meriting perhaps and extra star or two.Alas, it was not to be, Hill clearly of the opinion that gun-toting, drugged up Aussies are of a cultured sort.Take the penultimate and final scenes for example, where that unconvincing showdown concerning Macbeth and Macduff begins. Note how its the only scene where the killings are sort of justified. Well the last of Macduff's is anyway. This would be fine, however the Miss Hill's final scene demanded once again she get her kit off-only this time shes dead in a bath of her own blood. One last pathetically (albeit not unexpected) pointless display of both Wright's and Hill's perversion to sexual violence. Even Cap'n Jack would be bored of her by now.In short, if sex, brutality, drugs and promiscuous teenage witches is your bag-go see it. If not-don't. Just don't bring the wife and kids!

My favorite Macbeth movie adaptation is by far Roman Polanski, which is also one of my favorite movies. This Australian production, directed by Geoffrey Wright, brings the Macbeth story to modern times in the Melbourne underworld. Sam Worthington gives a great performance as Macbeth who along with his crazy Wife Lady Macbeth, plan out to kill the crime boss King Duncan (of course), allowing Macbeth to take over the power. This movie may seem silly at first, I wasn't sure how I was going to like it, but as the movie progresses and the actors recite the Shakespeare dialogue, I found myself drawn into the Macbeth story which I truly love. Along with a very good soundtrack and performances by all, I like this modern Macbeth very much. Shakespeare's Macbeth is a very violent story to begin with, and this version carries that off with plenty of blood and violence. This of course is not for everyone, but being a fan of Macbeth, I enjoyed it.

Geoffrey Wright, the director of "Romper Stomper", transplants Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in the contemporary, criminal underworld of Melbourne, Australia. The result is a semi-awful piece of cinema. Sam Worthington is Macbeth, and walks around looking very self-conscious and bored. Victoria Hill, who wrote the script with Wright, is Lady Macbeth, and she's neither awful nor good. Lachy Hulme, who plays McDuff, is the only actor in the cast who exudes any kind of authority. The rest, including Gary Sweet, are wasted and misdirected. Shot on HD by the late Will Gibson, the movie's visuals lack character. Everything is too clean and too deliberately lit. Wright's direction is uninspired in the extreme and the action sequences are confusing and inept. Marketed erroneously as "the most violent Australia movie ever", the film is violent at times and reasonably bloody, but it fails to deliver a single impactful moment. Slow moving and terribly pretentious, this umpteenth silver screen version of the classic play is the personification of wrong-headed.