Title: What were they thinking?
Product review: I am so tired of "Rock and Roll Shakespeare." I am all for modern interpretations of Shakespeare - I've even done a couple - but these actors, particularly Bill Murray, could not have seemed less interested in the material. "Concept Shakespeare" never works because you have to fit the play into the concept, and not the other way around. Ethan Hawke is a good actor, but woefully miscast in this. Also, setting up Denmark as a corporation as opposed to a country sets the stakes very low, and makes us not care what happens after a while. In this version, Hamlet should have just called the police when he had the evidence and then gone out for a martini.
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