red-95752 The book and the movie of Julius Caesar isn't my tastes. This is my opinion of the movie and I do respect others opinions. But this movie is a snooze a thon. I paid $5 for this movie on Amazon and thankfully I got my refund, but still waste of my time that now I cant get back. It was just terrible acting and very boring. Fell asleep on the couch after watching not even 10 minutes of it, I woke up to realize it was still on and the sooze a thon went on and on and it felt like the movie was on forever. I seriously don't recommend this movie. Please don't waste your hard earned money and time for this. For Christ sake its 2018, not the medieval times!

kapelusznik18 Julius Caesar triumphant return to Rome after his army's latest victory over Pompey is warned by a foolish looking blind sooth-slayer that trouble abounds and is to strike him the very next day on the Ides-or middle-of March. Thinking him being mad Caesar attends a Senate meeting the next day that with also despite his wife Portia in having a strange vision sensing something terrible is going to happen to him and warning him not to go. Caesar in the Senate chambers ends up being murdered by members of the Roman Senate body with his good friend Cassius-the one with that lean and hungry look-striking the first and his good friend and second in command Brutus the fatal blow! Feeling that Caesar was getting a bit too big for his own good and soon to become declared by the people of Rome King or Emperor, which he in fact doesn't want,it was decided by to do him in- JFK assessing style-and frame some poor pasty-who is to be named later-in doing the evil deed. That's before a live and power hungry Caesar liquidated the Roman Senate together with Brutus & co. along with it.At Caesar's funeral or grand end off Mark Antony who was aware of the treachery done to his friend Julius Caesar instead of praising his dead friend exposed those that murdered him Brutus Cassius and their fellow conspirators causing them to check out of town before they end up getting lynched by the outraged populace! With Mark Anthony taking command of the Roman legions and the late Caesar's adopted son Octavius-the original Mister October-as his #2 Man they defeat Brutus' rebel army by ambushing it at the battle of Titinius leaving it's leaders Brutus & Cassius in paying, for their crimes against the Roman Empire, with their lives. Which they in cowardly fashion instead of dying in battle or combat having their aides, instead of their enemies, run them through!The best film version of William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" with the late Marlon Brando's performance of Mark Anthony completely blowing away the entire Academy Award caliber cast. Brando's performance was so electrifying that his co-star in the film James Mason as Brutus asked the films director Joseph L. Mankiewicz to tone it down in the fear it would overshadow his own as well as everyone else in the cast! It was the first time that Brando unlike in his previous bringing down the roof performance in "Streetcar named Desire" showed he can speak perfect English and not mumble-as if he forgot his words or lines-his way through which he was known for back then in the 1950's as well as even now.

nicole_guerrero This movie goes into depth with the details from the book. (It gives you a visual of the scenes from every act) Summary: It is about Julius Caesar and he is warned to be careful with his life and his wife has a dream of him getting killed. He at first listens but the gets convinced that it was just a dream so he goes to the meeting with the senate.He goes to the senate and they have planned to stab him to death because they believe that he will gain to much power and they fear he will abuse it. The Senate proceeds with their plans and they kill Julius Ceaser.Caesar's funeral comes up and they let Antony speak and Antony tells the whole truth of what they did. Then Brutus tries to convince them that it was done because it was a choice either save Rome or let Julius make them in to slaves. The crowd does not believe him so now Brutus and Casiuss are in hiding trying to protect their life's. At the end Brutus and Casiuss die but not because they are captured but because they choose to die.

arieliondotcom I took one point off for it being in black and white only because that might detract from the enjoyment for some. And because of that it seems a bit dated what with the Shakesperean dialog and all. THat is, until Marlon Brando appears. If you have any question of why Marlon Brando was thought to be so great an actor, watch this film. It is his masterpiece, as any actor can attest that to master Shakespeare is acting's greatest challenge. And Marlon masters the master's dialog well. So well in fact that you will forget it is black and white and be so drawn into the film, forgetting the age of the film and of the much older dialog and simply taken into the scene. Then, watch "On the Waterfront" or "A Streetcar Named Desire, or "Guys and Dolls" and "The Godfather" and you will find yourself marveling that this was all the same man in the same lifetime.Fools will remember him for being "the godfather of binge eating" and only remember the tawdry side of his later life as whatever mental or spiritual demons took their toll. But when it comes to acting, just the pure art of it and power of it, Marlon Brando shows here "This was the noblest (actor) of them all...and the elements so mixed in him that nature might stand up and say to all the world 'THIS was (an actor)!'..."