The role of Macbeth is a lot like one of those test-your-strength contraptions at a carnival.

Some have managed to ring the bell; others have narrowly avoided getting theirs rung.

The good news is hes a soulful Macbethevery bit as intense and electric as youd expect.

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It looks like a Ronnie James Dio music video conceived by George R.R.

KurzelsGame of Thrones-ification ofMacbethisnt necessarily the worst or most unnatural creative impulse.

But the films raw performances get upstaged by Kurzels medieval shock-and-awe palette.

But Kurzels epic pageant of art-directed violence doesnt signify as much as I suspect he thinks it does.B