Title: One of my favorite movies!
Product review: This version of Hamlet is excellent. At around four hours the movie requires some determination to watch, but if you like Shakespeare it doesn't seem like that long, really. I can't rate it a perfect 5 stars because some of the actors just shouldn't be here - Jack Lemmon is horrible, and some of the other acting is questionable, but the parts of Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude, the gravedigger, and many others are, in my opinion, great to watch. My favorite scene is when Hamlet has the players stage his mini play-within-a-play, The Mousetrap, to confirm for himself the guilt of Claudius in old Hamlet's death. Here Branagh really shines - every time I watch it I have to rewind it a couple of times just because the scene is so fun to watch. Kate Winslet is excellent as Ophelia, especially when she begins to lose her mind. Rent the movie once at least, and if you like it as much as I did, you'll have to buy it.
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