macbeth be one of the most frequently told story in cinema and have be translate many time in numerous theater and celluloid setting . originally write by william shakespeare in the early 1600 and macbeth tell the story of betrayal among royalty and one man quest for power . director geoffrey wright ( romper stomper ) try his hand at update macbeth by set it in the contemporary melbourne underworld . a film where the character substitute sword for gun ( ala baz luhrman romeo and juliet ) and royal vassal for gangster and macbeth be a gritty and violent and but critically flaw film . macbeth ( sam worthington ) work for king duncan ( gary sweet ) . after be elevate to the thane of glamis by the king ( a be prophesy to macbeth by three witch ) and macbeth start set his eye on the throne . one night the king come to stay at macbeth house and lady macbeth ( victoria hill ) talk him into kill the king to assume power . macbeth kill his master and then assume his crown . but success have it downside and a macbeth soon find out and when he have to go to hideous length to protect his murderous secret . ok and first thing first . the film major fault be sam worthington . his portrayal of macbeth be in a word . boring . i honestly do not care about macbeth while watch the film . i have more sympathy for victoria hill lady macbeth because she bother to act at least . worthington sit sullen and wood face throughout the entire film . i felt like he be do his best impression of johnny deep george jung character from blow . but without the charisma . i have never see worthington in a film before so i be not sure if it be his or the director fault and but either way the glue that should have tie everything together into one cohesive unit be weak . the dialog be good and but when match up to the geoffrey wright australian gangster motif seem a bit out of place . frentically paced action sequence mixed with long shaksperian musing create pace conflict within the film . i understand that this be macbeth and that the director want to use the original dialog intact . but hard and fast action scene follow a three minute soliloquy tend to get annoy if not a bit pretentious . the camera work be highly stylize and and for the most part and it work well . one thing that i find annoy be how the camera would slowly jostle back and forth and almost constantly . i do not mind shot like that it just overdone . it pass beyond the realm of be cool and stylish and instead becomes irritate . other than that and the art direction and cinematography be fairly well do . for all of the good quality macbeth possesses while stylish direction and shakespearian dialog and a strong soundtrack and supernatural nude witch ( the weird sister ) and and good helping of brutal and bloody violence . all of these strength be forget when one considers sam worthington uninspired portrayal of macbeth . the role of macbeth be essential for tie everything together and in this respect geoffrey wright and sam worthington fail miserably and make macbeth a forgettable foray into shakespeare .