![]() ![]() I also liked how Julia Stiles made it very apparent that the cause of Ophelia's madness was her powerful love for him, which he didn't requite. I liked having the "To be or not to be" speech in the "Action" aisle of the video store, because that speech really is much more about action than about death. To replace the medium of the play with the medium of the film as the thing in which the king's conscience will be caught is not a very interesting point, as plays and movies are so similar anyway. All right, so it is trying to make some analogous points about a struggling film-maker, but it doesn't work well. ![]() ![]() They can do much better, but the director must have failed to inspire them. There is occasional decent acting from Schreiber, Styles and Venora, but I have nothing good to say about the rest. There is no depth of either intellect or comedy here (as Stanley Wells has remarked, Hamlet is the most comical of all the tragedies), and as others have mentioned it is particularly ironic to cast Bill Murray in the role of the play's comic relief character and then have him be serious throughout. There are great actors on hand, but they are never given the opportunity to shine. In Almereyda's Hamlet, everything is pedestrian. The milieu can't be pedestrian, and the words can't be casually and mumblingly delivered. In opera, modern productions frequently work well, but it's harder with Shakespeare, because he is so poetic that the surroundings need to reflect it, lest they undermine the poetic integrity. There has never yet been a Shakespeare movie that took place in the present day which worked well artistically and aesthetically. Reviewed by sarastro7 4 / 10 Sadly a mess ![]() Claudius now knows Hamlet is a threat and even uses Ophelia, Hamlet's love, in his own plots against the young man. Finally convinced of Claudius's guilt, Hamlet must avenge his father. To buy time, Hamlet feigns madness to catch his uncle's conscience, he invites him to watch a film he's made that shows a tale of murder. Hamlet must determine if the ghost is truly his father, and if Claudius did the deed. A specter in the guise of the newly-dead CEO of Denmark Corporation appears to Hamlet, tells of murder most foul, demands revenge, and identifies the killer as Claudius, the new head of Denmark, Hamlet's uncle and now step-father. ![]()
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