As You Like It 2006 Review
As you like it is particularly rich in unbelievable contrivance obscure puns and tortuously rhetorical insults almost designed to test a modern audience s patience.
As you like it 2006 review. While diverting in parts this struggles to make a convoluted plot engaging. We re still loving. Set in a lush beautiful forest in an imaginary old japan populated by people of all races this version is an innovative and modern one rather than a conventional and classical one and it works. A daughter of the powerful duke must show her courage and inventiveness to be with the man she loves.
Read the empire movie review of as you like it. Audience reviews for as you like it mar 13 2012 for an overview of the play and some decent performances this is fine but isn t up to the standards of branagh s hamlet or much ado i haven t. Energetic and entertaining but it s like a long episode of an over talky out of control soap opera. As the film opens a well liked duke brian blessed is removed from power by a group of ninjas and ronin in the service of his evil brother frederick also blessed.
Directed by kenneth branagh. With takuya shimada brian blessed richard clifford bryce dallas howard. In an english enclave in feudal japan the family of duke senior brian blessed finds itself suddenly on the lam in a japanese forest fleeing the deadly attack of senior s brother ferdinand also brian blessed waged to overtake senior s position.