The film is visually nice and has good performances. However, I did not like the script. I considered a very promising idea to fullfill the blanks on the story of Ophelia, who appears so little in Shakespeare's Hamlet. However, the movie does much more than it. The inserted parts not only are predictably much less impacting and more generic than the lines wrtitten by the bard, but also made the whole story loses a significant part of its strength. While Claudius and the queen are still interesting characters, Hamlet was turned into an almost minor character, what is bizarre. It is too much the present wave of mainstream cinema (with its core concerns and formulae) and relatively little of Shakespeare.
