Title: An abomination
Product review: Run, do not walk, from this unwatchable version of Hamlet. Set in modern-day New York City, but retaining all of the play's references to lords and castles, this film is the most ridiculous and contrived adaptation of Shakepeare I have ever suffered through. Hawke plays Hamlet as a pouty gen-Xer, whose soliloquys are played back on a hand-held recorder. Must been easier to hide the cue cards that way. When Hamlet and Laertes pull out fencing swords on a New York rooftop, it's true eye-rolling time...although not as horrid as when Bill Murray, playing Polonius, hams his way through "to thine own self be true." An awful, awful movie.
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