Gerard Butler as Tullus Aufidius and Ralph Fiennes as Caius Martius in Coriolanus. (Photo: Courtesy of the Weinstein Company) Director-star Ralph Fiennes’s take on Shakespeare’s Coriolanus plays like a furious sketch dashed off in the wake of Fiennes’s turn in The Hurt Locker: the tale of a hardened soldier, a killing machine, rendered temperamentally unfit by his battle experiences for peacetime life
