Movie Review: 'Henry V' (1989)
Pros: Great cast; good (if not perfect) directing; gripping story Cons: Score is sometimes intrusive; pacing can be slow at times And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by from this day until the ending of the world but we in it shall be remembered. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers, for he today who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother, Be he ne'er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition, and gentlemen in England now abed shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whilst any speaks, that fought with us upon St. Crispin's day! Like millions of people in the United States (and, I suspect, the English-speaking world), my exposure to the works of William Shakespeare came about when I was taking the mandatory-for-graduation Language Arts course during my senior year. Not counting West Side Story (a thinly-veiled modern version of Romeo and Juliet ) and several Star Trek epi...