Daisy Ridley is amazing but when you make Ophelia into Buffy Hamlet automatically turns into Xander. The other characters suffer too.
Clive Owen has a very Alan Rickman vibe. But he plays the younger, sleazier Claudius in ways that are more laughable than menacing. No longer a fat tyrant who likes to drink, this is a lean, mean villain who sprints through the woods in search of poison. Uh, okay then.
And Naomi Watts as Gertrude, another fiasco. I mean, I get that she's weak. But why make her some kind of drug addict? To prove what?
I don't want to give away the ending. Certain people live happily ever after, and they make new friends. But nuns? Really? They don't slap her around for being loose? They welcome her no questions asked, when she's big with child? "Oh, I'm a widow." "Sure you are. Now let me hit you with a ruler." Paging Mary Gordon!
PS The play-within-the-play is brilliantly staged. It's almost like they read Shakespeare's play!
Clive Owen has a very Alan Rickman vibe. But he plays the younger, sleazier Claudius in ways that are more laughable than menacing. No longer a fat tyrant who likes to drink, this is a lean, mean villain who sprints through the woods in search of poison. Uh, okay then.
And Naomi Watts as Gertrude, another fiasco. I mean, I get that she's weak. But why make her some kind of drug addict? To prove what?
I don't want to give away the ending. Certain people live happily ever after, and they make new friends. But nuns? Really? They don't slap her around for being loose? They welcome her no questions asked, when she's big with child? "Oh, I'm a widow." "Sure you are. Now let me hit you with a ruler." Paging Mary Gordon!
PS The play-within-the-play is brilliantly staged. It's almost like they read Shakespeare's play!