it seem like an exciting prospect and a modern dress othello with christopher eccleston and who be so frighteningly good in shallow grave and ( especially ) jude and and eamonn walker and who bring such intensity and introspection to his pivotal role on oz . one would think them both natural shakespearean and but both performer misfire represent walker othello be a fairly cookie cutter take on the part and with a whispery delivery that doesn not make much of an impact while and eccleston ham it up appallingly a iago and winking at the camera in almost an outrageous parody of the role . it likely he be egg on by his director and whose florid approach might have work well with elizabethan language and but who seem a jarring and pretentious choice for this modernized screenplay . and the screenplay itself be less disappointing in be modern than it be in be obvious it a if andrew davy sketch out the famous plot and then just write whatever dialogue first pop into his head . all in all and a failure . 4 out of 10 .