Pardon me for saying but I think William Shakespeare is the most overrated cultural icon ever so this adaption of one of his works looked more than a nightmare instead of a joyful event and yet I kept on watching till the end nontheless and there is only man responsible for it : Marlon Brando, an acting so good that you even tend to forget James Mason is giving a great performance as well. The story is known I suppose : the great emperor Julius Caesar isn't as popular by his surrounding politicians and so it happened one day that he got killed by a gang led by Brutus and Cassius, while his guardian angel Marc Anthony (Marlon Brando) can't shut up about it and think the noble people of Rome must know the truth... Very difficult movie as this is Shakespeare to the bone (you don't see a movie but a filmed theatreplay) and I might be a cultural barbarian but I am not longing to hear the lyric English they spoke in the Middle Ages. And still a sort of must see as there are some scenes (the speechscene from Brando) that are legendary, almost too good to be included in a most of the times extremely boring movie.
Review of Julius Caesar
