"Romeo and Juliet" premiered to the collective disappointment of critics and avid Shakespeareans alike. Critics who gave "Romeo and Juliet" reviews called the film 'confounding,' some going on to state that it did not know what planet it was on.
The most recent take on the tragic tale of "Romeo and Juliet," takes a more traditional setting as compared to Baz Luhrmann's 1990 retelling of the Capulets and the Montagues in a modern, Los Angeles setting. There are the lush sceneries and costumes and sun-kissed backdrops, but none of Shakespeare's original words. The Baz Luhrmann version may have ignored vast sections of the play's text but had gone on to render the pure heart and essence of the tragic story to a usually dismissive MTV crowd, which was won over by the timeless tale.
"Romeo and Juliet" reviews pan Hailee Steinfeld's performance as Juliet as having none of the edge seen of her in "True Grit," and Douglas Booth, despite capturing the classic Raphaelite beauty with his perfectly curled hair and pouty lips, delivers a plain, 'uninvolving' Romeo.
The rest of the "Romeo and Juliet" reviews are not kind to the other actors either. Paul Giamatti's Friar Laurence is described as skulky while Damian Lewis strikes an accurate and very unflattering figure of a man in the Italian renaissance., while Stellan Skarsgard is described as always seeming to be at the verge of laughter, even at the film's darkest moment. A funeral, for example.
Romeo and Juliet spend a lot of time eating face, which critics in most "Romeo and Juliet" reviews says is for the best, given that they had laid waste to much of what the chemistry of young love is supposed to depict itself (Romeo and Juliet, in the play, are barely even adolescents).
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