Heston and Crystal I enjoy, but Williams, and particularly Lemmon, are annoying. In addition, some of the cameos are distracting. I find Branagh's performance a bit cloying, and far too over the top in some cases. Obviously, since all actors of Hamlet are working from the same script, unless edited, this is dependent entirely on the manner in which they portray the character. In the case of Branagh, that may be merely a matter of personal taste. I don't enjoy the acting as much as I first did. The settings are wonderful, and I admire the desire to produce the entire play unedited.

I have to admit though that after seeing it again a few times on video it doesn't have the same attraction for me that it originally did. A much better way to spend an evening than watching the retread scifi thriller material out at the time. I enjoyed this film immensely when it came out, going to it five times while it was still in theatres. In an incredibly convoluted plot, the most complicated and most interesting in all literature, he manages to (impossible to put this in exact order) feign (or perhaps not to feign) madness, murder the 'Prime Minister', love and then unlove an innocent who he drives to madness, plot and then unplot against the uncle, direct a play within a play, successfully conspire against the lives of two well-meaning friends, and finally take his revenge on the uncle, but only at the cost of almost every life on-stage, including his own and his mother's. In a supernatural episode, he discovers that his uncle, who he hates anyway, murdered his father. Hamlet (Sir Kenneth Branagh), son of the King of Denmark (Brian Blessed), is summoned home for his father's funeral and his mother Gertrude's (Julie Christie's) wedding to his uncle Claudius (Sir Derek Jacobi).

Hamlet (1996) is considered one of the best Drama movie in India and around the world. Kenneth Branagh,Julie Christie,Derek Jacobi,Kate Winslet are the starring of this movie.

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