Hamlet

Name: Hamlet
Genre: Drama
Released: January 10, 2014
Rating: 33

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Breaking Glass Pictures | Release Date: January 10, 2014 | Not Rated

Summary: Treachery, sex, betrayal, revenge and murder are the focus of this 1940's retelling of Shakespeare's classic play. A thrilling digital feature for a 21st century audience, that preserves the emotion and energy of the original, but presents it in a brand new way.

Director: Bruce Ramsay

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

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Annlee Ellingson

Jan 16, 2014

A focused, if at times melodramatic, take on the play's beating heart. Read full review

Joe Leydon

Jan 10, 2014

A modestly inventive but curiously bloodless version of the Bard’s timeless tragedy. Read full review

Chris Packham

Jan 7, 2014

Peter Wingfield delivers an engagingly oily Claudius, and Lara Gilchrist's Ophelia is radiant. But Ramsay's Hamlet's madness never really overcomes the character's traditional emo temperament. Read full review

Nicolas Rapold

Jan 9, 2014

While Mr. Ramsay accomplishes some kind of a trick in streamlining the play, his trimming of corners feels more like a taking away of the center. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Jan 13, 2014

Ultimately, there’s little to distinguish the proceedings other than their brevity. By the time the piece reaches its familiar death-strewn conclusion, with guns taking the place of swords, it has come to seem like little more than an ill-conceived exercise. Read full review

Joe Neumaier

Jan 9, 2014

This Canadian Hamlet, completed years ago, is as airless as a tomb. Read full review

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Mike_M

Jan 10, 2014

Hamlet at 1 hour, 27 minutes is not Hamlet. If you want to do something like Hamlet, but its 87 minutes and set in the 1940's, write your own story, guy.

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