Synopsis
War erupts between dirty cops and outlaw bikers as a drug kingpin tries to protect his empire.
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Cast
- Ed HarrisCymbeline
- Dakota JohnsonImogen
- Milla JovovichQueen
- Ethan HawkeIachimo
- Penn BadgleyPosthumus
- Anton YelchinCloten
- Bill PullmanSicilius Leonatus
- John LeguizamoPisanio
- Spencer Treat ClarkGuiderius
- Peter GeretyDr. Cornelius
- 91
The A.V. Club
Almereyda tackles one of the Bard’s lesser-regarded later works, the plot-heavy tragicomedy Cymbeline, and again unearths untold depths. - 90
Salon
If this willfully peculiar and daring Cymbeline isn’t to all tastes, it brings back the blood, the thrills and the sense of moral discovery to a long-neglected work. - 70
Village Voice
This Cymbeline is brash and inventive and more than a little wild. Perhaps we've been wrong about this play all along. - 60
Variety
Having learned a thing or two from Baz Luhrmann, Almereyda substitutes guns for daggers and picks his locations carefully, creating a rich, sultry-looking environment within which to stage the drama. - 50
Slant Magazine
The source material, which is convoluted even by Shakespeare's narratively dexterous standards, is admittedly a tough nut for a filmmaker to crack. - 50
The Dissolve
Almereyda’s sweeping cuts take material that was already problematic (though this technically isn’t one of Shakespeare's “problem plays”) and render it almost nonsensical. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Almereyda puts together a slick-looking, well-paced package. But the central conceit simply doesn’t hang together well enough to create credible dramatic stakes, yielding an underpowered mashup of Sons of Anarchy with Game of Thrones. - 40
The Telegraph
Almost nothing seems to click.