Hamlet
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Movie Reviews of Hamlet
Movie Review: If you don't like it the first time, watch it again.
Summary: 5 Stars
The best Hamlet ever. Mel Gibson's Hamlet seemed to breath new life into a tired vehicle, but Ethan Hawke's version not only enlivens, but also makes it believable. It is the only version where the audience really doubts Hamlet's sanity, and Hawke pulls it off magnificently. There is a wonderful mental ambiguity that emerges from this adaptation. Usually Hamlet gets mad, in this one Hamlet goes mad, and we follow. Very believable. This Hamlet is like fine wine, it gets better each time you watch it. The first time you see it, the layers of novelty and creative innovation are so thick, it is almost intimidating or overwhelming. You can be absorbed by the costuming and sets and miss the plot. Try it again. It gets better everytime.
The acting is superb throughout.
Movie Review: Excellence in concept and execution
Summary: 5 Stars
This film version of Hamlet is superior to both the Mel Gibson and the Kenneth Branagh versions. Mr. Gibson did not have the chops to play the character, and Mr. Branagh's performance was so Branagh-centered that the character of Hamlet was never revealed.
By contrast, Ethan Hawke is excellent in creating an obsessive, inner-consumed characterization of a man of doubt. Bill Murray brings a new dimension to Polonius (although Jacobi's performance is both admirable and traditional in Gibson's film). Liev Schreiber is outstanding in the role of Laertes.
The modern setting may discomfit some audience members, but those who get around their hesitations will be delighted by the very fine performances in this movie.
Movie Review: Somethng different.
Summary: 5 Stars
this version of Hamlet is young and provocative. True it does lack some of the hard brashness of what made Shakespeare's original Hamlet, it does though, bring a new side to the story out. By adding shades and highlights to its charicters. Making Denmark not a country but a bussiness. Turning Ophelia into a photogropher, and Hamlet into a movie director. This version does stay true to the orininal plot even though a large amount of original sceans are cut out. But in this case that is good for this film, leaving it light and always just reaching the core of its intended emotion. All in all this movie is very good. But don't come looking for the orininal Hamlet, come looking for something different.Movie Review: Hamlet
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie was fantastic. The lines were delivered brilliantly. Yes, Hawke seemed unpassionate, Hamlet was unpassionate - he's a confused, frustrated kid who's father just died. As for the rest of the actors/actresses, Bill Murray read his lines just like he should, he's the classic idiot in a Shakespeare play - he's not supposed to sound smart. If you have any idea what is really happening in Hamlet, you will realize that the actors did the best job I've seen of Hamlet yet.Movie Review: Modern Shakespeare
Summary: 5 Stars
Great video. I used it in the classroom and showed several clips to coincide with the text. The casting director made some great choices and the director stays true to Shakespeare's story as he would want it told. The "To be or not to be" soliloquy is done beautifully--very introspective and spoken as Hamlet walks through a Blockbuster. There are a few things taken out of order, but only done for cinematic effect.