In 1993, Hollywood powerhouses Denzel Washington, Michael Keaton and Keanu Reeves got together with Shakesperean’s Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh to exhibit their acting chops in Much Ado About Nothing. Even Keanu turns out okay in this well turned adaptation. In addition to enjoying the performances, I always find myself admiring Denzel for taking the role. “He just cares about his craft and wants to be in good stuff” I think to myself. Perhaps I am projecting my own prejudices, but it seems like many of the Hollywood types are doing this to show how cool they are rather than do something interesting. Christian Bale and Kevin Kline seem to do all right, but Calista Flockhart and Michelle Pfeiffer seem a little over the top here. They also try to throw in some fancy effects to do all the fairy stuff, but it isn’t quite good enough to look good. Still, there is some good acting and it the writing is pretty tolerable.
wasn’t this much ado about nothing?
Comment by Unfrozen Cavedan — June 3, 2006 @ 5:15 pm
the denzel movie was Much Ado, the christian bale movie was Midsummer Night’s dream.
Comment by nate — June 3, 2006 @ 7:32 pm
oh i see. it was limiting the search to the first 10 entries. you should be able to find it now.
Comment by Unfrozen Cavedan — June 3, 2006 @ 8:33 pm