Amazon.co.uk Review
Made toward the end of his life, this film by Akira Kurosawa is at once amazingly beautiful and incredibly slow going. An anthology of imagery and lessons, Dreams focuses on the ways life both gives and takes away, almost with the same hand. Nonlinear to the point of expressionism, it's a film only for the Kurosawa enthusiast who feels the need to see all of his films. In a scene toward the end, Martin Scorsese appears as Vincent Van Gogh, painting in a field that looks like one of his paintings. This is visually arresting--and sometimes just arrested. --Marshall Fine
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This is a Dream Come True........2003-03-03
Remaining (arguably) as his most delicate example of cinema, the late Akira Kurosawa left it the customary five-long years before releasing the long-anticipated Japanese epic 'Ran', before patiently waiting another five years when the highly established director let loose 'Dreams'. After finding finance from movie brats George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg and a secure release courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures, Kurosawa began to write the screenplay for 'Dreams', a personal journey through some of the hallucinations he had seen in his sleep. Born 1910 in Tokyo, Akira Kurosawa was the seventh child to three brothers and three sisters. Before breaking into films, Kurosawa was enrolled in the Japanese army - from which one of the "Dreams" are present in the film - and later as a member of the Japanese Physical Education Association. In 1943, Kurosawa took the helm of 'Sanshiro Sugata', his first feature, which he followed up with Part-2 in 1945.Through the years, Kurosawa made 31 features, at first pumping out one or two a year, until his three hour epic 'Red Beard' which started his ritual 5 year seize between releases.
'Dreams' is split into eight segments, more so than stories as the segments are not always a tall-tale, more so a statement that Kurosawa seemingly needed to get out of his system. The first vision comes in the form of 'Sunshine through the Rain', a young boy -Kurosawa' has just left his house and run into the nearby woods only to find a parade emerging from a strange mist. He hides behind a tree watching on until they spot him looking and he runs away only to find that an angry fox has visited his home and left a sword for him to fall onto. The boy's new journey now is to search for the foxes' under the rainbow and beg for forgiveness. The second vision is 'The Peach Orchard'; a young boy sits in a room with five girls. He has an argument and decides to leave when he sees a mysterious girl inside his house and decides to follow her into the woods. Here, he is confronted by an array of Japanese men and women all in dress that demand that the boy cut down the all peach trees. The third is 'The Blizzard...' which is now famous for its silent opening where all that is heard is the wind rushing over the mountains and the clunks of instruments being used to climb them. This story follows Japanese folklore about the mysterious snow fairy and is probably one of the biggest visual treats on offer. The fourth is 'The Tunnel', as stated before this is one Kurosawas' nightmares of the war where he approaches a long, dark tunnel only to be confronted by what seems like a blood-stained dog growling at him to enter. At the other end he meets one of his darkest fears, his deceased army still marching and awaiting their orders from the commander. The fifth is 'Crows', Kurosawa's ode to celebrated painter Vincent Van Gogh where Kurosawa is strolling through a local gallery looking at and admiring his works of art. We he exits he seemingly enters one of Van Gogh's' painting where the land transforms consistently. The sixth is 'Mount Fuji in Red'. A volcano erupts, although the volcano is actually an exploding Nuclear Power Plant that threatens to wipe out an entire city. The seventh dream is 'The Weeping Demon'. Kurosawa walks over a black and desolate land, fighting the wind. Here in this mist covered world, strange creatures surround him, but these creatures are Demons. The eighth and final episode is 'Village of the Watermills'. An older Kurosawa crosses a long bridge that spans across a large streams washing away below. All around watermills turn, providing 'The Village' for nearly all the power they will ever need. Sadly, the last episode is honesty the worst in this near perfect package.
Kurosawas' eye for detail is exceedingly vibrant that some say he meant the film to look like it was a studio set. Although I'm sure you can make up your own mind, considering the importance of the film, the studio backing it and the money hiding behind. But in my personal opinion the colour and exquisiteness of narrative is exceptional and when watching the last thing you are caring about is if the set looks fake. The fantastic effect come from George Lucas' 'Industrial Light & Magic' and is one film you easily watch again. A film that soars quite closely to 'The Seven Samurai' in terms of its resourcefulness, Dreams will stay bright for years to come. Look out for the cameo by Martin Scorsese - it's great. Kurosawa died in 1998 following a stroke.
Magically addictive landscapes of unique vocabulary........2001-04-15
It's so satisfying to get a film completely dedicated to the non-linear cause! Here, Kurosawa unashamedly enjoys the sensual impact of images and memories "in themselves" without symbolist or conceptual reduction ready to demote them. The images themselves have bee worked at very hard, both on set and in post-production, and I know few films that can rival such artistic alertness. Kurosawa does, however, manage to squash in quite a bit of personal wisdom in the form of lengthy monologues, but that shouldn't detract from what is a beautiful and hypnotic experience. Seeing the Van Gogh episode is the closest I have come to living out a personal fantasy on film.
Magical and poetic films by a master of the cinema.......2001-03-24
These eight short films are indeed slow paced, as the Official reviewer says, but that is intentional and is suited to the dream world in which they are placed. These are beatiful, moving and often tragic films which can be watched again and again. Not light entertainment, but great art.
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Trying to define the unexplainable..........2006-03-07
A tale which proves that good old fashioned family films are still the way to stick two fingers up at the goverment and restore a sense of moralistic virtue on our more then confused than infused youth of today.
Bill Cosby, in what has been called "The Finest portrayal of a paranormal phenonomenon since The Invisible Man" (Entertainment Tonight", gives a career diving performance as a ghost who struggles with death.
This film asks the important questions which we dare to announce ourselves...will anyone care when I'm dead? If I died today would anyone bother visiting my rotting corpse of a body infested with maggots and flies...?
To find the answer my friends...you have to watch "Ghost Dad", the most crucial cultural commentary available to date..
Amazon.co.uk Review
The biggest hit of 1990, Ghost is part comedy, part romance, part supernatural thriller. Patrick Swayze, previously best known for Dirty Dancing, stars as Sam, the banker who is killed following a mugging. Caught in a limbo between here and the afterlife, he uses Whoopi Goldberg's fake psychic as an intermediary to warn wife Molly (Demi Moore) that his death was no accident but a murder and that she is in danger too.
Ghost's original popularity and notoriety originally arose not from its dealings with the supernatural but the scene involving Moore fondly astride her potter's wheel fashioning a somewhat phallic-shaped vase, with Swayze fondly astride her. So infamous did this scene become that it's now more likely to raise a chuckle than a sultry sigh. As for the rest of the movie, it still somehow manages to engage despite the awkward juxtaposition of lachrymose melodrama and zaniness. Demi Moore, whose massive Hollywood success was always a mystery to some, is a little flat as the tomboy-coiffed Molly, her tears occasionally seeming onion-induced. Swayze, however, delivers as Sam while Whoopi Goldberg turns in the best performance of her career, delivering the requisite zip and sass to what otherwise might have been a morose movie.
On the DVD: Though well restored, DVD enhancement has only served to emphasise the slightly quaint feel of the special effects here--Ghost was made just prior to the digital era. Otherwise, this is a good package and an essential purchase for fans. There's a 22-minute featurette, "Remembering the Magic", in which scriptwriter Bruce Joel Rubin explains that the film was inspired by the scene in Hamlet in which the Prince meets his Father, and how initially appalled he was that his masterpiece of the supernatural was to be directed by Jerry Zucker, previously responsible for Airplane!. They also reveal that Tina Turner was originally cast for the Goldberg role. Zucker and Rubin team up for a funny commentary track. --David Stubbs
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A CLASSIC.......2007-11-26
Certain movies will just always be hard to write a review for. You can give your opinion and say what you enjoyed or didn't enjoy but I find myself hesitating in certain aspects just because a classic must be left some space to be a classic. Ghost as far as I'm concerned will forever be a romantic classic. It's sheer brilliance is it's twists, it is incredibly, deeply, romantic and at the same time terrifying, and has an underlying story that is never fully explored. It's got action, mystery, horror, and at the heart is the pure, simplistic romance of it all.
The story is about an investment banker played by Patrick Swayze and his girlfriend, played by Demi Moore. Sam and Molly are deeply in love, planning for the future and happier in their lives than ever before. Until Sam discovers laundered money in investment accounts. He is robbed and subsequently murdered for his password to the computer in order to empty the laundered money from the accounts. But Sam doesn't go the other side. He is kept on earth in spirit form because of his unfinished business both with Molly and to discover his murderer. He must learn the ropes of being a ghost and nobody else can hear him until he runs into a so called psychic who scams people into believing she can contact their dearly departed. However it turns out, Oda Mae Brown played in her academy award winning role by Whoopie Goldberg can actually hear Sam. Together the unlikely team must help each other uncover the horrible murder plot and save Molly.
Swayze and Moore make an incredible couple..hot on screen. Their careers have perhaps slipped since then one might say but this was them at their best. Swayze was indeed at the top of his game coming out of Dirty Dancing and Roadhouse and Moore was young and a new hot commodity which made them undeniably perfect together. Their roles fit them perfectly. Whoopie Goldberg was hilarious and believable as Oda Mae and her character was such an integral part of the film. Tony Goldwyn plays a great villain as the betrayer of the film. In a short time director Jerry Zucker establishes a best friendship between Goldwyn and Swayze, a deeply loving relationship between Swayze and Moore, and a plot line that goes far beneath the movie. Obviously Goldwyn's character is being used by a much higher up criminal to launder money although we never see him. Is he being blackmailed? Paid off? Something held over his head? Maybe he's not the bad guy but rather forced to commit these acts? It's a big job because we also know Willie Lopez played by Rick Aviles is involved in this as well. And deeper than that we have the theology in the film. The light brings good people to the afterlife and the dark shadowy beings torture the evil.
This film is one of a few that is endlessly watchable meaning you can sit down any time and watch it through over and over and over again which is exactly what makes it a classic. It has it's holes, it has to with a plot like that. And it has it's disturbing moments, a gratituous death scene, a make out scene which although features Swayze and Moore is actually Demi and Whoopi...you have to see it to understand it. Also if Sam Wheat must learn how to physically touch things in his ghost form...how does he sit, walk, etc before he learns that? And his first experience with walking through a door happens days after his death. I'm sure sometime between then and that point he would have had to have walked through something. Perhaps those are minor points but they are things that will come up especially if you have seen it as many times as I have.
The film is a must see and if you haven't seen it, go watch it right now!! Because it's one of those staples of films that everyone must know about. Ghost is amazing!! 9/10
top film.......2005-07-07
this is one of my favorite films of all time. its combines both saddness with great comedy. though the storyline between sam (swayze) and molly (Moore)is heart wrenching and great to watch i love to watch this for the pure comedical value of whoopi goldberg who makes me laugh from the moment that she is it and lightens the mood of the film so it is not a complete tear jerker.
this film is one you have to watch if u are a hopeless romantic or love comedy it definetly has both in abundance.
"I've always loved you".......2004-10-22
This is without a doubt my favourite film of all time. I have watched it, it must be about a billion times and each time, without fail, the end scene leaves me with tears in my eyes. But as I watched it, I realized that there is more than one reason why Sam is murdered. I won't say anything in case I spoil the story for someone who hasn't seen this film, but, if you have this film on either DVD or video, watch it again and look VERY CLOSELY at Molly's actions towards the end. If you don't have this film, buy it and do the same.
A classic romantic film.......2004-10-13
This film never fails to provoke a tear-jerking session from me, and that in itself shows how utterly brilliant this film is. It is a true classic. Patrick and Demi have an award-winning chemistry between them on screen, which aids in this well devised film. Some bits make you laugh, and some make you cry - but thats the beauty of it.
Not bad........2003-09-11
This is that film that you watch if you want to listen to the song thats played in it. But once you have heard it you just cant turn it off. I bought it for my mum and she loves the film, so I have come to sort of enjoy it. If you like the romantic, ghosty "death cant tear us apart" type of film then ghost is for you.
The extras on the disc are very good, and although they are little in numbers, whats there is worth the monney.
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Romero fumbles, but Argento scores.......2006-11-04
Two Evil Eyes threatened to be another disappointment from Dario Argento, especially since the first half of this modernized Edgar Allen Poe double-header, The Facts in the Case of Mr Valdemar, directed by George A. Romero, felt like a competent but uninspired network TV compilation episode. So it's a real surprise just how much dark fun Argento has with The Black Cat, playfully riffing both on Poe's other short stories and classic movies (there's even a subtle Psycho moment where Martin Balsam's nosey neighbor finds himself at the foot of another staircase looking for another missing woman) as Harvey Keitel's crime photographer - first seen photographing the aftermath of a Pit and the Pendulum incident - finds his life going to Hell when he gets rid of the girlfriend's cat. It's not prime Argento, but compared to his stale going-through-the-motions later efforts like Phantom of the Opera, The Card Player and Phenomena, it'll remind you why you liked him in the first place.
Strange yet amusing.......2003-10-13
As a collector of budget 1980's horror movies I thought that this would fit the collection well. However on viewing it was not quite so budget as i first expected. The first movie of the 2 part movie collection is very good indeed. It's about a woman who marries a rich older man to claim inheritance when he dies. A friend of hers uses hypnosis to make the old man sign away masses amounts of money into their account. All goes wrong when he actually dies and remains under the hypnosis. The film goes on from there and both confuses and amuses you throughout. The second movie is all based around a mystical cat who causes havoc all around. Not so good as the first movie but well worth a look. The acting is pretty good and quite crisp but could do with being a little less cheesy (but thats what you want with 1980's horror is'nt it?
disappointing for Dario.......2002-09-23
Most people will be buying this for Dario's contribution, but Romero's contrbution isn't quite as bad as is often made out (it's still pretty terrible though). I have to say that this is probably my least favorite of Dario's movies, and it's not even to do with the length. It's a bit of a cliche but everytime Dario americanises his work (cat o'nine tails), the result never comes out his best (though Trauma is arguably an exception). The lyricism that acts as a hallmark to Dario's oeuvre is sadly lacking, and many of the characters are exteremely annoying.
However, the transfer is up to Anchor Bay's usual standards, and the inclusion of 'An Eye for Horror' as an extra is a generous extra (even though it's also available on the UK edition of Sleepless). If you're an Argento completist like me, you'll probably want to get it...
One Evil Eye.......2002-09-13
I have mixed feelings about this film! It was directed by two big directors Romero and Argento and they adapted Poe's stories. How could something like that goes wrong?
Well Romero's part is a Zombie story that is so bad and lame, you have to see it to believe it. I nearly stopped watching the film after this one.
Thanks god Dario saves the day with a great rettelling of the Black Cat with a great Harvey Keitel, terrific camera movies and a fabulous Goblinesque Pino Donnaggio score.
If you want to get this film, be sure that you are a Dario Argento fan, cause he's the only reason to own this film!
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Denzel fired his agent because of this film .......2007-04-17
One of Denzel's lesser known and acclaimed films; Racist cop Hoskins has a heart transplant and gets deceased Denzel's heart. The trivia about the film is even more interesting than the film itself; Talked into making this film by his agent, Denzel Washington fired him shortly afterwards.
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demons clone quite entertaining.......2007-07-15
Basic plot. School swim team gets infected by a chemical spill in the basement of the school which turns them into ghouls. The remaining students, teachers and a band that are performing there have to try to survive. Not sure if this is made before or after lamberto bava film demons but its very similair (bunch kids trapped together, slimy demons with big teeth) but on a lower budget. The only two people we get to root for are Jeff and Steve the horror nerds and possible the band. The rest are ghoul fodder. The gore is ok, some nice scenes but a lot of fake bodies having blood shot out of them and a lot of blood capsules on arms, legs, etc. After all said and done its a nice no brainer film to chill out to if you like low budget horror and you'll know exactly what to expect.
Amazon.co.uk Review
Franco Zeffirelli's stripped-down, two-hour version of Shakespeare's play stars Mel Gibson as a rather robust version of the ambivalent Danish prince. Gibson is much better in the part than many critics have admitted, his powers of clarity doing much to make this particular Hamlet more accessible than several other filmed versions. The supporting cast is outstanding, including Glenn Close as Gertrude, Alan Bates as Claudius, Ian Holm as Polonius, and Helena Bonham Carter as Ophelia. Zeffirelli's vigorous direction employs a lively camera style that nicely alters the viewer's preconceptions about the way Hamlet should look. --Tom Keogh
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Gloomy means lightless.......2006-06-11
This Play is one of the most important pieces of drama and poetry in Shakespeare's complete works. A cycle of peace and quiet is disturbed by an incestuous crime, both the murder of a brother and the hasty and sensuous marriage of the murderer with the victim's wife, a marriage which is totally against the normal Christian and feudal rules of the time : you are not supposed to covet the wife of your brother. Then havoc falls onto the kingdom of Denmark. Hamlet is forced to play deranged and crazy to save his life and to cover up his violent defense against dangers around him. Ophelia will get deranged to the point of drowning herself. Then the cycle of disturbances will go on to its utter end which means the destruction of all the protagonists. Shakespeare's vision does not stop there : equilibrium is reintroduced in this disturbed kingdom by the arrival of a distant cousin, Fortinbras, who seizes power by force though he represents the last touch of legitimacy available. But this film takes two interesting options. The first one is the will to be as realistic as possible about the real living conditions of the time in the Elsinore Castle in Denmark. Gloomy, dark, shadowy, life is nothing but a shady dream accompanied by ambitious social climbers who are ready to do anything to have power and privileges. The film insists on the fate of some of these smiling hypocrites, like Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern who are shown in their last living instant just before the axe of the executioner falls on their necks in London. The film also insists on the filth of such a life and concentrates this dirt onto Ophelia. This realistic choice gives to the play a dramatic density that it deserves entirely. At times it verges onto a melodramatic dimension, especially when dealing with the mother who is an unsensitive ambitious woman who does not want to lose the status of Queen and is ready to do anything to keep that crown. In fact she cannot love Hamlet because he represents a danger to her queenhood. Zeffirelli shows her nearly as being repentant. The second option is the cutting off of the last scene, the arrival of Fortinbras to seize power by force and legitimize the return to equilibrium since he is the only surviving relative of this blood line and he had been banned out of Denmark because he was against the strange crowning of the brother of the dead King due to his marrying the dead king's wife, which is incestuous as we have seen. This change in ending cuts off any historical and political meaning in the play, and that is a shame because Shakespeare is a great historian in a way, definitely a historical playwright who has a full vision of fate and time. Why did Zeffirelli do that ? We can hardly know. Maybe he wanted to balance his Romeo and Juliet with a second drama of the same type. Maybe it is his vision of Shakespeare, even if it is a reduction.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Paris Dauphine & University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne
Since brevity is the soul of wit ..........2005-05-04
I will be brief; though whether witty, too, as this production is ... why, I know not.
For 'tis not a trifle thing to take a play like Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and cut its length
Almost in half, without thus giving up half of its meaning. Yet, Signor
Franco Zeffirelli: even he, who aught already did for "Romeo
And Juliet," hath made his mark again here in most splendid fashion.
The Prince of Denmark's been portrayed by Thespian royalty near and far,
First among these the great Sir Laurence. Yet here now comes Mel Gibson: a most
Unusual choice, 'tis true; and better known for other roles. But although
Action star and ladies' favourite, this venture made him humble; justly so:
"The play's the thing," he says as Hamlet, and as himself, he adds: "Hamlet belongs
On stage." And he deplores that merely one of his enactments of each scene
Should be preserved on film forever, and that he never had the chance
To delve into the role anew from night to night. - Fear not, good Sir: I think
You did great honour to the Bard's intent; well understood unhappy Hamlet's
Scorn, his rage, his doubts, his terrible paralysis, all his tormented soul.
I also do agree that although ten years older than the prince when you
Took on the part, those extra years provided further insight of the kind
That's needed for this complex role. Hadst but maintained you this same sense of
Hamlet's gravitas until the end, of my full'st praise you wouldst have been assured.
Alas, the levity that you let creep into the final duel with Laertes
In my view ill becomes that scene, and although Hamlet on its eve hath had
A premonition of his death; hath spoke of providence and sparrows,
And looking at the sunset sighed, I doubt that when he meets Ophelia's brother,
He's so far gone beyond all caring that he'd make light of their encounter.
("The rest is silence," too, would have impressed me more without the lisp.)
But let that be. For I do join you in applauding those who
With you hearkened the appeal of Signor Zeffirelli; and who
Most heartily deserve to share this feature's laurels. Princes of
British theatre: the late, great Alan Bates - usurper Claudius -
All ruthless power, cunning, even carnal, brushing away his pangs of guilt;
Yet, reck'ning he doth not escape. Paul Scofield, next, th' ill-fated ghost;
Not bearing arms, as Shakespeare wrote, but verily a perturbed spirit,
As Hamlet calls him, in his pain. And Ian Holm as counsellor
Polonius: not ponderous, nor slow of tongue and eye but quick, and yet
Slain by the prince, in Claudius's place. They all have stood on stage a hundred times,
And brought to life the Bard's great plays, so well doth it behove one new, as Master Gibson
Is, to Shakespeare's world to credit them for lessons learned; and not just for their acting.
Also permit me, pray, to speak about the ladies in this male-dictated play:
Glenn Close's Gertrude, youthful queen, who gives the lie to Hamlet's chide
And his unmerciful reminder of her flesh's humbleness, and of her
Age. A bit too Freudian, perchance, her and her son's relationship
(That's an approach I've never liked). But a commanding presence, all be told.
Yet, even more praiseworthy is Miss Hel'na Bonham-Carter; her
Ophelia well-neigh impossible to replicate, she's *that* convincing.
Now rose in bloom, in love; now in distress, now finally in lunacy; she wails,
Her hair is tangled, clothes in rags, prophetic words she speaks disguised as
Songs and flower talk, before she drowns and thus propels this drama's end.
What else? Oh aye, of course: Kudos must also go to David Watkin,
In charge of camera, and Signors Ennio Morricone and Feretti
- by first name Dante - for this film's score and the design of its production.
Faithful reporting, too, would be amiss without a word on Hamlet's foils:
Horatio, his school fellow, in Stephen Dillane's able hands, as is
Laertes in Nathaniel Parker's; and Trevor Peacock as the gravedigger,
Spot-on: a diamond in the rough. As player king, moreover, have a
Look out for Pete Postlethwaite; and unlike the movie by Olivier
This one includes both Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - Michael Maloney and
Sean Murray. Fortinbras, though, you'll search in vain in this production, too.
The words, of course, are those of Shakespeare, though moved around a bit, but not in
Ways that by and large, methinks, the Bard would take exception to. Save, that is,
"Get thee to a nunnery," which doth assume a diff'rent connotation here:
A kinder, gentler Hamlet, who still contrives to show some care about Ophelia.
(But would he really? Nay, I think not.) "To be or not to be" not in the
Courtyard but the crypt, however, that is amazingly intense: both
The performance and the imagery. As generally Zeffirelli
In troth well uses film's ability to convey meaning visually, as
In the burial of Hamlet Senior, the prince's wordless visit to
Ophelia, and in the punishment of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
But let me close now. Brief I would be, that was my promise - well, there goes that.
Such is reviewing! Yet, what I wish, in faith, dear reader, thou hadst found
Within these lines is that I recommend this film. So go and watch it - presently!
This is a Hamlet for today's audience........2004-12-10
This version of Hamlet is short and fast paced. It has plenty of energy and Mel Gibson is a convincing Hamlet. The balances of the cast are top-notch actors and are in excellent form. There is enough of the story to give cohesion. There are no stories or plays that could not stand a little reinterpreting. But some times this leave out the feel. Mel actually put more feel back in to the original intent. So do not compare while watching. And watch it again.
The story takes place in Denmark. Hamlet the prince is informed by the ghost of his father that his mother and uncle were responsible for his father's death. His mother and his uncle get married before the funeral meat is cold. How will Hamlet deal with the situation and what effect will it have on others around him?
Not what I expected!.......2004-02-08
Not only was I sceptical about Zeforelli as director, I was also extremely sceptical about Mel Gibson as Hamlet! But I was so wrong! Gibson takes on the role perfectly in the shortened version of the play and the supporting cast complement him wonderfully! Extremely easy to watch, even for those not used to Shakespeare's language.
Very good, if shortened interpretation.......2003-10-12
This is an ouststanding version of Hamlet, with Mel Gibson taking on the lead role very well. The film has been cut down, from around the usual 4 hours to around two. The major advantage of this is that you are less likely to get more and is more accessible but the disadvantage is that it misses out chunks of speech, which some would argue is crucial to the film. As well as Gibson turning in a superb performance, the other main players (Julie Christie, Helena Bonham-Carter, Ian Holm amongst others) all give excellent performances and this makes makes a worthy addition to the Hamlet family.
RATING : 4 STARS ****
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