Review of Anonymous (2011) by Robert M — 07 May 2012

Literary scholars and fans of Shakespeare are treating this like their Da Vinci Code and the very thought of this movie gets their blood boiling. I don't pretend to be a Shakespearian expert on the matter nor am I going to shut my imagination off to the endlessly fascinating conspiracy theories that drive this story; what I do know, though, is that piece of historical fiction is exceedingly entertaining and kept my attention all the way through.

Forget the conspiracy for whether or not Shakespeare created those works and lets find out who really directed this movie, because being good isn't Roland Emmerich's strong point. But seriously I found this movie fascinating and story totally sold me on what it intended to do.

Rhyd Ifans gives an incredible performance and the script by John Orloff was clever without becoming self indulgent or pretentious and the directing by *bites lip* Roland Emmerich was great.