Hamlet

Decent telling of the Bard's greatest drama, though they get some stuff wrong. I saw this at Sundance and Ethan Hawke kicked the back of my chair and didn't apologize.

A E S T H E T I C

2000 was not a year in the 90s!

Well filmed, and the A E S T H E T I C of New York in the year 2000 is wonderful, a true relic of that year. But, it is let down by how much it drags in the last hour, I just wanted to give up once Hamlet went to England. And the characters are not well developed, when Hamlet dies and Horatio is weeping; I didn't really care, I knew nothing about Horatio or his relationship with Hamlet. And the final duel, how did the bullet kill them both? Worth watching if you want to travel in time.

I wanted to like this, but I didn't. The dialog is simply too forced. At times the verbatim dialog works, but in general it doesn't. Hawke and Stiles are convincing, but everyone else falls flat.

eh i was a fan. i can see you not liking this for obvious reasons but this time period really works on me and what a cast!

Meh

Not watchable. Didn't work for me, using the modern setting and the original Shakespeare dialog.

Drawing on a moody and atmospheric visual style, Almereyda presents a Hamlet of our times: a disenchanted youth without roots and isolated by technology even as he uses it to express himself. The film cleverly relegates some of the conversations and monologues to phones and video, and displays the true genius of the play by its adaptability to the modern world. The film lags a bit in stretches, but the performances are solid, with Murray's Polonius and Schreiber's Laertes the standouts.

57.250

That is some turn of the century font there

I like the idea of modernizing Shakespeare plays on film (I liked the Romeo and Juliet version), but this movie left me bored. I probably wouldn't have watched it if Bill Murray hadn't been in it, but he didn't seem very into it. If nothing else Julia Stiles was really cute in this movie, and while that has no actual bearing on the movie itself it did help me make it to the end.

not an outstanding movie by any means, but its worth it if only to see modern everyday people speaking Shakespearean verse. Bill Murray is a definite stand out, as is Steve Zahn

Interesting "modern" presentation of Shakespeare's classic tale of revenge.

Kind of pretentious.

I wish I could like this version, because the cast is truly stellar, but the feeling of the film is too dry. It takes too much of the emotion out of the story to work any longer.

This was decent & a pretty good watch, my gripes are with the narration, which i found annoying (I'd rather have him taking to himself) & some of the monologues were a bit long, although it was terribly well written.

I do not know what Ethan Hawke was thinking when he did this movie. It was horrible and did not follow the story in many ways. The novel ideas though made it slightly better than completely pitiful.

It's a decent attempt at making Hamlet more modern and some of it worked well. However nothing really stood out as very impressive either.

Sorry Ethan...Bill isn't for you...

Hawke's not too bad