5/5 Mel Gibson's version of Hamlet, the Movie
  by Murthy Kolipakam (Long Branch, NJ)
Saw the movie before seeing the play on Broadway with Jude Law. If I had not seen the movie, it would have been very difficult to watch the play and understand what was going on. Mel did a great job in playing Hamlet. The whole cast was excellent. I highly recommend this movie, if you are a Shakespeare fan.

Mike K

5/5 Hamlet - Excellent movie!
  by Goku (Bedrock)
Hello I'm an autistic adult.

This is my review on Hamlet - dvd.

I rented this from my local library & have watched it on tv on the regular channel's a couple of times & really enjoy the movie. Mel Gibson is great as Hamlet in the movie. Excellent actor. I can't praise up the movie enough. If you get into Shakespeare then watch this movie. You'll really enjoy it I know I have.

Happy Movie Hunting!



5/5 Excellent product
  by Mariann Villafane (Puerto Rico)
Is an excellent film, specially for the students that are learning about William Shakespeare famous plays, what a better way to do so .

5/5 Worth having
  by John Hayden (Mason, MI United States)
The screenplay takes great liberties with the script--some radical abbreviations--but overall, it was aesthetically delightful.

1/5 Dreadful
  by Tim
This film has many problems, bad cuts, miscasting, etc. - but I'll limit myself to Mel Gibson here. This is the most ridiculous Hamlet I've ever seen. Mel plays him with swaggering machismo (the only thing he is capable of) and it is wrong, wrong, wrong. Hamlet is a passive-aggressive type; he is indirect in everything he does. Laurence Olivier's is a good example as to how he should be played. Gibson's doesn't even make any sense.

And as far as the cuts, they're particularly bad here, but everyone does it. Olivier cuts quite a bit out of it himself. Brannagh's is the only film version I know of with no cuts at all and unfortunately I feel it is as wrong as this one.