Movie review

Travis Long
November 8, 2007
Shoji-Sensei
Movie Review
Throne of Blood
This movie is based on one of my favourite plays by Shakespeare, Macbeth, so that was pretty exciting. This movie, however, was definitely old but it felt to be pretty long. Though it had none of the lines from Macbeth it was still very representational of the story and was interesting just having its own character with differences that make is more compatible to Japanese culture and folklore.
I think that even though this movie was done during the fifties is still had some very realistic and beautiful visual effects with the scenes with the evil spirit and all the scenes with the fogs. I think that the worst part of the movie was that there were many moments of unnecessary long uncomfortable silences. The characters spent a lot of time just looking at each other and sitting around, staring, then saying something, and staring some more. I think that like thirty minutes of unnecessary silence could have been cut out. There were some silences that were really great for setting the mood and adding suspense but after awhile it felt a little over done and I could not take it. I wanted to sleep through parts.
I also think that compared to American movies at the time, this movie showed a lot more violence with in the scenes instead of hinting at something happening. A lot of the fight scenes and the especially last part of the movie where the main characters was shot with hundreds of arrows were particularly violent. Over all it was a very poetic and beautiful movie that, like any movie, had its pros and cons.