Title: A wonderfully inventive and accessible "Hamlet"
Product review: A terrific updating, using Shakespeare's language, but set in moderncorporate New York City. Beautifully shot, on a shockingly low budgetfor it's look, with amazing use of New York locations.Hawke is very good, and most of the rest of the cast, including Bill Murray (to mysurprise, doing Shakespeare), Kyle MacLachlan, and Diane Venora are first rate.More important this is a re-telling that really uses the film medium,and makes us re-think a classic in a new way, while being terrificallyentertaining along the way. It makes the simple humanity and complexideas under the Shakespearian poetry as clear as any production I'veever seen, on stage or film.Obviously controversial, and not for purists, but well worth seeing todecide for yourself.
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