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Hamlet (2000)
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Reviews Counted:84
Fresh:47
Rotten:37
Average Rating:5.8/10
Consensus: Stiff performances fail to produce any tension onscreen.
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Ethan Hawke stars in this modern update of Shakespeare's classic play. He portrays a young filmmaker in New York City who struggles to gain power of his deceased father's company, even as the new... [More]
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julia Stiles, Kyle MacLachlan, Diane Venora
Director: Michael Almereyda
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Reviews for Hamlet
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It could prove almost as definitive -- and far more easily digestible -- than Branagh's textually complete version. Full Review |
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Almereyda pares the drama down to its bloody core, leaving a potent tale of despair, madness and loss. Full Review |
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4/5 |
The movie is almost playful in its mission to burrow around inside Hamlet and discover what's still relevant about it. Full Review |
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The lines are read for the most part with more feeling for the angry-stepchild plot than for the iambic pentameter. Full Review |
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Almereyda modernises and streamlines without trivializing, and amplifies poetic melodrama with regular ingenuity and energy. Full Review |
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3/5 |
[This is] an imaginative and exciting update, lacking only the decent swordfight the ending demands. Full Review |
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The city becomes a living emblem of the tense coexistence of art and corporatism, an uneasy relationship which Almereyda emphasizes as the core conflict of his picture. Full Review |
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0.5/5 |
I guess Johnny Depp was busy, so they got the one that can't act. Full Review |
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2/5 |
No, Ethan Hawke can't do Shakespeare. Full Review |
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3/4 |
In a sense, it's B-movie Shakespeare, the same as Orson Welles' inspired version of Macbeth (1948), which was produced on a skimpy budget for a B-picture studio. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Hamlet is supposed to be melancholy, but Hawke plays him as a disturbed loner who is more likely to infect the world's computers with an e-mail virus than avenge his father's murder. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Consider it a primer for Kenneth Branagh's four and a half hour Hamlet opus. Full Review |
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4/4 |
Fear not. This Bard is anything but boring! Full Review |
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This film is a refreshing contrast to the latest batch of Shakespeare films. Full Review |
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3/4 |
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. Full Review |
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3/4 |
The result is more than a mere gimmick and less than an unqualifed success, but yes -- it's always watchable. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Visually the film is riveting, using the setting with real style and emotion. Full Review |
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6/10 |
A disappointment because it failed to peak my interest like Baz Luhrman's Romeo & Juliet did. Full Review |
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