Iago's monologues

The one things that bothered me here was when Iago speaks his monologues. Such soliloquies are meant to be a character's inner thoughts, spoken only because that's the only way on stage that they can be related to the audience. To be the most realisitc, the character should appear to be speaking to himself. Branagh looks straight at the camera. The character may be related his thoughts to the audience, but it completely breaks my disbelief to have the character directly acknowledging the audience. Derek Jacobi did the same in Hamlet. David Tennant, for one, got it right.

That being said, the movie had a good approach by having some of these soliloquies done as voice overs. They are, after all, the character's thoughts. Switching back and forth between these two approaches was a bit jarring for me.