Hamlet

The translation of the play into a modern context works wonderfully and surprisingly well, and the director makes many interesting and compelling choices. For example, the use of Polaroid snapshots instead of flowers in Ophelia's mad scene provides a striking visual... Full review

Michael Almereyda's "Hamlet" has the novelty of taken place in modern times. Shakespearean English remains almost intact but that's all that is left from the play. Although familiarity with the setting was meant to draw the viewers closer to the... Full review

For a modern day version of a movie, this film nails shakespeare's story and has more symbols then any other movie I have ever viewed. It is clear that the director Michael Almereyda had a clear understanding of the play and... Full review

I don't know why filmmakers find it necessary to remake a story over and over again. There must be a dozen versions of this story on film. Frankly, I'm really sick of them. There are a few that are excellent, but... Full review

Just to get it out of the way, I think Hamlet is quite possibly the best story ever told so clearly I have a bias that is a bit unfair. So, if you are unfamiliar with the story of Hamlet you... Full review

The worst adaptation of any of shakespear's ever n Ethan Hawk was very awful he could done better Bad movie guys... Full review

any movie that attempts to bring the Shakespeare canon to a new audience has to be allowed fairly wide latitude...so in the age of "Clerks", only right and fitting that we get a taste of Hamlet as a Kevin Smith-type... Full review

This is one of those movies that you suggest in your head but then realize why more movies aren't made like it. For example, people wonder how a movie would turn out if you used the old Elizabethean language in a... Full review

The actors were dressed in modern clothes, talking on cells etc... but when they talked to their parents they adressed them as madam and as my lord... Total piece of *****...how can ppl waste money in producing a movie so sucky.... Full review

That film left a bad taste in my mouth. Somehow, the editor of the script managed to butcher Shakespeare's image by slicing the script to death and ruining every single scene and destroying the character's motivations, including the lovely Ophelia's madness,... Full review

As such, the film unwittingly makes a case for slashing funds for the arts. Dramatically, "Hamlet 2" is a twist on the formula of let's-put-on-a-show, with the twist being that no one wants the show, least of all the administration, which has chopped the school's art funds. ... Full Review

The action is wonderfully intimate -....Evett's Hamlet is tremendously athletic....Evett's best moments are the quietest.....Johnny Lee Davenport and Marya Lowry are the most charismatic royal couple since Kyle MacLachlan and Diane Venora in the underrated 2000 Michael Almereyda/Ethan Hawke film..... ... Full Review

In fact, the film is full of wonderful as-they're-talking events that make it real and not just a rackety wooden stage of costumed speeches. That said, I loved the first half of this film. ... Full Review

This is a dreadful movie.....So we have to blame the director since most of the time, it sounds.... ... Full Review

Again, several of Almereyda's innovations are risky, such as his odd staging of the play's most famous soliloquies (including setting Hamlet's "To be or not to be" speech in the middle of a chain video-store's action films section). The suddenly paranoid Claudius sics several of Hamlet's friends on him, including childhood pals Guildenstern and Rosencrantz (Dechen Thurman and the always terrific Steve Zahn), as well as Ophelia's brother, Laertes (Liev Schreiber), who has ample reason for vengeance of his o ... Full Review

"Twilight" director Catherine Hardwicke talked with Movieline about her plans for the Emile Hirsch-led contemporary update of "Hamlet" at last night's Young Hollywood Awards. Tone wise, Hardwicke says "It's really like a thriller. ... Full Article

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are not only alive and well; they are tweeting. Their dispatches come from the current filming of the Royal Shakespeare Company's recent production of Hamlet , starring David Tennant, due to be screened by the BBC later... ... Full Article

Overture Films has announced a new, modernized version of Hamlet . This one is to star Emile Hirsch in the title role and be directed by his Lords of Dogtown collaborator, Catherine Hardwicke . ... Full Article

Hamlet 2 seems like a stupid idea - so why haven't more directors attempted it?They've transformed plenty of other Shakespeare plays. Macbeth , for example, has been turned into Roman Polanski's Grand Guignol version and Akira Kurosawa's Throne of... ... Full Article

Refer to a play as repertory and evoke a churchly silence of respect, especially if its playwright is still living. Dead playwrights have the best chance of becoming part of repertory though the term nowadays applies more widely than its... ... Full Article

Mostly these other guys who played hamlet were too old.In a modern sense he's much more of a Holden Caulfield or a Kurt Cobain. ... Full Article