Fresh
It could prove almost as definitive -- and far more easily digestible -- than Branagh's textually complete version.
Ken Eisner, Variety
Hamlet
Passion, Betrayal, Revenge, A hostile takeover is underway.
2000 · 1h 52m · R
Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Michael Almereyda
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Hamlet
Overview
Modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder in New York City.
Director and cast
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59%
Tomatometer
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
Fresh
Almereyda modernises and streamlines without trivializing, and amplifies poetic melodrama with regular ingenuity and energy.
Derek Adams, Time Out
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
Fresh
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
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