Hamlet (1990)
The film is about Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, who finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne and is plagued by indecision when he vows to avenge his father's murder.
27 March 1957, London, England, UK
14 August 1934, Nîmes, Gard, France
17 February 1934, Allestree, Derbyshire, England, UK
19 May 1931, Edmonton, London, England, UK
12 September 1931, Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
7 February 1946, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
19 March 1947, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
26 May 1966, Golders Green, London, England, UK
29 April 1945, Kent, England, UK
5 April 1943, Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
June 06, 2012
Starring Mel Gibson, Zeffirelli's Oscar-nominated version is colorful and mildly engaging, but lacking depth and poetry, and the two women are miscast.
January 02, 2011
Mel Gibson emotes as the doleful Dane.
October 04, 2003
[Mel Gibson] is by far the best part of Mr. Zeffirelli's sometimes slick but always lucid and beautifully cinematic version of the play.
June 23, 2004
In retrospect, it's a small jump from Shakespeare to God. What if Gibson had been stopped then?
January 01, 2000
Reduced to 'Master Pieces Theater,' Shakespeare's text nevertheless gains in force what it loses in integrity.
June 24, 2006
It's a surprisingly successful venture, decked out in Anglo-Saxon styles and with a brooding, robust castle setting which oozes horse muck.
January 01, 2000
There's nothing embarrassing about Zeffirelli's brisk new version, nor anything particularly remarkable; it's an entirely credible, middle-of-the-road production.
June 06, 2001
Gibson gives the melancholy Dane an earnest but pedestrian reading.
February 19, 2012
Alas, poor Mel Gibson! I knew him when he was on top of the world.
October 04, 2003
Not only is Mel Gibson much better than you might expect, but Zeffirelli's Hamlet is often entertaining and rarely hard to endure.
July 04, 2008
Performances all fall in a middle range between the competent and the lackluster.
July 04, 2008
Offers what amounts to a comic book intro to Shakespeare's classic, retaining few of the play's psychological complexities.
