Alex Kingston as Lady Macbeth is ideal. But it's really too bad Branagh keeps casting himself in the main roles of the Shakespeare plays he directs (although at least he's not Mel Gibson). The problem is his dreadful overacting in every S. film I've seen him do, and there are so many better actors close at hand to play such roles. I'd love to be able to show one of my lit classes a good Macbeth without resorting to the dated look of Polanski's masterpiece, but sadly, this one doesn't make it. Branagh sadly lacks all ambiguity.'
