Hamlet (1996)

Hamlet: Directed by Kenneth Branagh. With Rizz Abbasi, Richard Attenborough, David Blair, Brian Blessed. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

“seen one youu0026#39;ve seen them all, right? wrong! I still like the sombre Olivier version and Gibson did well, but this is in a class of its own.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI finally realized with this expanded production set 200 years closer to the present the full message that Shakespeare cleverly concealed with the more prominent aspect of Hamletu0026#39;s quandary, and that is he, Hamlet, is driven to distraction by the awareness its the insidiousness of human nature that created the conditions that saw his father murdered.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003elooking at the play with this insight you can see numerous scenes where this notion is there in the background. and by changing the era, Branagh shows yet again the astonishing applicability of that truth. all you need is to read a newspaper, something u0026#39;includedu0026#39; in this production.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ethank god for British stage actors raised on Shakespeare.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ea very rewarding viewing.”