Macbeth (**)

from Shakespeare Retold
Warner Home Video, 2007, 360 minutes
originally broadcast on BBC TV, November 2005


The big calling card here is hottie Scotty actor James McAvoy (Atonement), who's a kind of Highlander Michael J. Fox, as Macbeth. Initially I was taken with the idea of the tragedy being recast in a restaurant setting, but then I realized, oh yeah, the same idea had already been employed to great (and comic) effect in the cult film Scotland, Pa., albeit in a fast-food drive-thru setting as opposed to a three-star restaurant as imagined here. Add to this a very weak and unconvincing (if not altogether hard on the eyes) Lady Macbeth in the form of Keeley Hawes (The Bank Job, Death At a Funeral)