'Measure for Measure': Film Review
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hollywoodreporter.comTake away the title and a few characters' names, and you'd have to be pretty well versed in the Bard to recognize Paul Ireland's Melbourne-set Measure for Measure as a modern interpretation of that play.
Central relationships and plots are so changed —a man's sister is turned into his girlfriend, for one thing —that it would be safer to say the film was "suggested by" its predecessor, with more than a dash of Romeo and Juliet thrown in, and give it a different name.
But the literary source is one of only a couple of real draws in what is otherwise a fairly routine present-day crime saga, in which a forbidden romance ignites tensions between native Australian crimelords and a Muslim immigrant's gang.
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