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Watch: Private Romeo 2011 123movies, Full Movie Online – When eight cadets are left behind at an isolated military high school, the greatest romantic drama ever written seeps out of the classroom and permeates their lives. Incorporating the original text of ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ YouTube videos, and lip-synced Indie rock music, Private Romeo takes us to a mysterious and tender place that only Shakespeare could have inspired..
Plot: When eight male cadets are left behind at an isolated military high school, the greatest romantic drama ever written seeps out of the classroom and permeates their lives.
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Ratings:

	6.0/10 Votes: 2,328
	55% | RottenTomatoes
	53/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 49 Popularity: 6.442 | TMDB

Reviews:

No Excuse for Bad Storytelling
“Private Romeo” is supposed to be an updated version of Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ but the only resemblance seems to be that the characters all speak mostly from the original text. What would be lost if these two were not allowed to be in love? What would be gained?

Scenes in a literature class wherein the cadets are reading the text are juxtaposed with a bare-bones version of the story where they, for whatever reason, also speak lines practically verbatim with the original text. The new setting and the forbidden love being shifted to gay love is not a bad idea. But it didn’t matter to any of the cadets that two of them were gay. They aren’t from rival academies. They don’t appear to be different in any way. So the love wasn’t forbidden.

Around the time Tybalt comes into the gym, demanding justice, I started thinking that these guys were taking their Shakespeare class too far. Referring online, I learn that the characters should be related. Tybalt is Juliet’s cousin, so why is he so angry that he would want to hurt anyone? Here, it’s because it happened in the original text at a major point in the story.

Many scenes are confusing. The actor playing Mercutio is also supposed to be Juliet’s father, so who he is playing when isn’t always clear. During a scene wherein he sells Juliet for marriage, I kept wondering when Mercutio became Juliet’s father and how soldiers of the same rank can sell another to marriage. A character has a cell phone, so it could be safe to assume that others do as well. When Juliet drinks her poison, I wondered why she didn’t just text Romeo with something like “omg faking own death lol if u c me im not dead #RnJ4eva”.

Here’s something that REALLY bothered me. The male and female characters are all still divided, with Juliet and Nurse being referred to as women although obviously played by men. When Romeo is spooning Juliet, she is Little Spoon. The movie didn’t even attempt to do anything to further gender roles. At some point, it must have crossed Brown’s mind that at least minor changes in the text would be necessary. In one scene, Mercutio and another character are in a hallway trying to find Romeo. Mercutio offers, “He’s hiding in the trees here.” I’m thinking, “You’re in a hallway. There are no trees!” Such things make me have to use a word I despise using when describing movies; ‘pretentious.’

It’s often referenced in this movie’s message board that at the time of Shakespeare, only men were allowed to act. That’s well and good (and I saw “Shakespeare in Love,” too), but the story takes place in the modern day where women are allowed to act. So why did all the actors have to be male? Because Alan Brown wanted to make a gay version of Romeo and Juliet.

I am a gay man, and if you hate this movie, it does not mean that you hate gays.

The acting was good. Perhaps that’s a fault for me because if the acting had been bad, the movie would have been funny. Instead, I found it boring and annoying. Why should we care about these characters if the writer/director doesn’t care enough to give us a reason? It seemed lazy the way only a handful of lines were in modern speak and the rest were Shakespeare’s text. It seems as though Brown thought that if he changed the absolute minimum that it would all fall into place. It doesn’t.

Yes, I’m being harsh on an independent film with practically no budget. Still, that’s not enough to excuse bad storytelling. I have watched low budget movies with brilliant scripts, high budget movies with terrible scripts (who hasn’t hated at least one summer blockbuster?), and this is a low budget movie with a horrible script. If I had a copy of it, I would almost feel inclined to write notes in it with red ink and send it back. It really is a miracle that movies without big names attached get made in the first place, but “Private Romeo” does not help. By refusing to actually update the material, we’re left wondering why we are watching this in the first place. That’s the worst question that can appear in a viewer’s mind.

In the original text, Romeo’s and Juliet’s deaths helped end the feuding between the families. Here, they both survive. What good does that do? I’m not saying the characters have to die but am saying that their fates are directly tied to the story. If it doesn’t matter one way or another, then it doesn’t matter.

If you want a good, witty update of Romeo and Juliet, watch “Warm Bodies.” Actually, throughout “Private Romeo” I kept wishing I was watching “Warm Bodies.” The story was updated with genuine wit, turning the feuding families into zombies and zombie killers. There is even a brilliant parody of the famous balcony sequence as well as perhaps a better reason for their forbidden love to exist in the first place. Skip “Private Romeo” and watch “Warm Bodies” instead. If the latter disappoints you, then the former could be like torture. It certainly was for me.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 34 min (94 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Alan Brown
Writer Alan Brown, William Shakespeare
Actors Hale Appleman, Charlie Barnett, Adam Barrie
Country United States
Awards 1 win
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