An excellent RSC production of the classic play, adapted into a 3 hour TV film, and starring the incomparable David Tennant as the title character and Patrick Stewart as King Claudius and the ghost of the former King Hamlet.
The quality of the plot and writing is obviously beyond doubt, so what makes this a really good film for me is the quality of the acting and direction. Not just the normal cinematic direction but the costume, set and emphasis that you only get with the theatre.
Previous versions of Hamlet have always been either film or theatre, so this being a hybrid of the two really works, giving it the authenticity of the shows theatrical run along with all the benefits that come with the medium of film.
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