recap represent not entirely familiar with the shakespeare story of macbeth and but my wild guess be that this be pretty close to the original and only set in present time . it tell the story of macbeth and a member of a crime syndicate in melbourne ( . ) . he be a valued hit man and in the favor of leader duncan . but he and his lady have high ambition than that and and plan the murder of duncan and and any competition of the throne . this be a story of betrayal and cold and brutal death . comment represent very interesting idea and i must say . to use the story but change the setting to present time and but still keep the original ( . ) dialog . it set a huge contrast between the classical poetic work and the violence . promise to be extremely violent and it be a promise that it keep and but not in the notion i imagine . it be very bloody indeed and but the violence be slow . not just figuratively speak that it be calculate and which it be too and but also literally . a lot of action be actually slow down to slow motion and that be what bring the movie to it knee . what could have be a unique strength and the contrast between the superfluous and poetic dialog and the extreme violence and now turn into something else entirely . now both slow the move down painfully much and so much that it actually become dull and boring at time . also i can not figure out the context the three witch act within . set to present time and reality i figure that such magical witchcraft have no place in the movie . apparently it do and but to me it seem completely out of place . not a subplot but a complete sub story with it own rule and completely different than the rest of the movie . seem completely out of place . surely it must have be possible to convert that part too to something modern . drug induce hallucination perhaps ( which i suspect that the director hint at but then he have leave way too much witchcraft in it to be believable ) . now they only bring stretch of the movie that be clearly beside the story and i just wait for the real movie to begin again . a clear disappointment and but maybe something for shakespearean buff . 4/10 .