I watched this at home on DVD from my public library. It seems to have polarized movie-goers, many "1" votes and many "10" votes. I quite like it, the movie has an interesting story and is acted and filmed very well.
I have the advantage of not knowing very much at all about Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark" , the source play for the book and now the movie. As the filmmakers explain, this is a re-imagining of the basic story with more focus on Ophelia and Queen Gertrude, and what the complexity of their characters might have been. Die-hard Shakespeare fans most likely take issue, anything that changes from his various versions would likely be considered unforgivable sins.
But taken as a story greatly "inspired" by the play, with some significant changes and trajectory for Ophelia, it works very well, at least it does for me. Not a great movie but certainly very watchable and suitably entertaining. Not a "10", not a "1", somewhere between those extremes.
Daisy Ridley is really good as Ophelia, playing her as a reasonable but strong person. I don't really know much of his work but George MacKay (mac-eye) works well as Hamlet and Naomi Watts as Gertrude.
I have the advantage of not knowing very much at all about Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark" , the source play for the book and now the movie. As the filmmakers explain, this is a re-imagining of the basic story with more focus on Ophelia and Queen Gertrude, and what the complexity of their characters might have been. Die-hard Shakespeare fans most likely take issue, anything that changes from his various versions would likely be considered unforgivable sins.
But taken as a story greatly "inspired" by the play, with some significant changes and trajectory for Ophelia, it works very well, at least it does for me. Not a great movie but certainly very watchable and suitably entertaining. Not a "10", not a "1", somewhere between those extremes.
Daisy Ridley is really good as Ophelia, playing her as a reasonable but strong person. I don't really know much of his work but George MacKay (mac-eye) works well as Hamlet and Naomi Watts as Gertrude.