The result is more than a mere gimmick and less than an unqualifed success, but yes -- it's always watchable.
– Rick Groen,
Globe and Mail,
19 Mar 2002
fresh:
Icy-cold in its palette and unwaveringly cool in its application of modern settings and gizmos to a text that stands up to endless reinvention, this is a Hamlet that brings imagination matched by thoughtfulness to its appeal to both eye and ear.
– Susan Stark,
Detroit News,
11 Apr 2002
fresh:
Almereyda modernises and streamlines without trivializing, and amplifies poetic melodrama with regular ingenuity and energy.
– Derek Adams,
Time Out,
3 Jun 2006
fresh:
The lines are read for the most part with more feeling for the angry-stepchild plot than for the iambic pentameter.
– Andrew Sarris,
New York Observer,
27 Apr 2007
fresh:
It could prove almost as definitive -- and far more easily digestible -- than Branagh's textually complete version.