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Hamlet (1990)

Rate: 4
Viewed: 11/17

11/17: Good grief.

Mad Max does Hamlet. Oh, the horror...the horror. Like all Shakespeare pictures because of the dated language, Hamlet is unspeakably boring. It's two hours and fifteen minutes long which is impossible. I did finish the movie in two weeks after many, many sittings.

The language doesn't sound like Shakespeare but is more of gibberish Shakespeare. That's why Daniel Day-Lewis never did this crap after supposedly seeing his father's ghost while performing the titular character in 1989.

Hamlet began the founding of Icon Productions because no major studios wanted to finance a Shakespearean picture (no shit). Eventually, it produced the Oscar winner Braveheart, an epic I had yearned to watch again while suffering through this deplorable film. The most awful performance award goes to Helena Bonham Carter who doesn't belong in a Shakespeare film. All she can do is look cute while showing off her big wide eyes.

All in all, Mel Gibson's hair is the only fascinating part of Hamlet.

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