The critic consesnsus is: Visceral and visually striking, Ralph Fiennes' Coriolanus proves Shakespeare can still be both electrifying and relevant in a modern context.. What reviews supported this critic consensus?
1. [though Ralph Fiennes] handles himself quite well behind the camera, he took on a perhaps too ambitious a project for the first time out the gate.
2. A Balkanized 'Hurt Locker,' Ralph Fiennes' 'Coriolanus' is a timely, aptly fierce, IED-rigged adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy
3. As a portrait of modern warfare, politics and propaganda, "Coriolanus" is intriguing, even if the gritty action sequences don't quite measure up to the realism of "The Hurt Locker."
4. Fiennes's adaptation is a reflection of spin, media influence in public debate, the cult of personality and the glorification of war.
5. Though I understand why they dare not tamper with Shakespeare's brilliant lines, it feels more and more like an unnatural gimmick when contrasted with the contemporary setting.
6. A portrait of the birth of a fascist leader, Shakespeare's play sets his will to power in direct opposition to the people of Rome and their right to rule themselves. In modernizing the setting, Fiennes only makes the comparison more relevant.
7. This is a blood-and-gutsy adaptation of a bloody and gut-wrenching tragedy by Shakespeare.. Director and co-star Fiennes has chiseled the play into a contemporary setting, not unlike Baz Luhrmann did with Romeo + Juliet, and just about as inventively
8. Immensely entertaining, Coriolanus is chock-full o' gore and the contemporary trappings of a man and a land divided, both from without and from within.
9. Ralph Fiennes turns one of Shakespeare's least-loved plays into a slashing, muscular but uneven modern drama in his film-directing debut.
10. Alternating between whispered regrets and outraged howls - again, seeming to suggest there are two people within him - Fiennes provides the film with a magnetic center.