first and what i do not like . the acting be not really up to the hamlet standard . branagh be really over the top and do a lot of yell mostly . in my opinion and those actor who be not big name celebrity generally do a good job while though i would except billy crystal and robin williams . ( and charlton heston and too and but i wasn not sure if he be play at be a hack . ) a lot of the ambiguity in the play be clearly resolve one way in the flashback . what i think speak very much in this play favor be that it be accessible . shakespeare be hard to understand for the vast majority of people nowadays while many people be not even incline to try and because of it reputation a serious literature and it archaic english . if they see this film they will understand clearly at least one man interpretation of the play . they will be see it more a shakespeare audience saw it represent a play with sword fight and battle and and mighty king and noble and murder and incest and evil scheme and ghost and great art and if one care to look for it and but in shakespeare day most do not and any more than most people do now . branagh overacting and and his forcing of his interpretation of the story on the viewer and may detract from shakespeare art somewhat and but it be well that modern audience get a piece of it and rather than nothing . i have get to say one more thing though . some people be complain that it set in the 19th century and that wasn not shakespeare time . well and in shakespeare time their costume and scenery be that of their own day for all of their play . shakespeare may have say it in the day of ancient rome or medieval denmark or whatever and but he do not dress his character up like they be and he use the costume of his own time . for the same reason his play be full of anachronism . for example and in king john the english and french have cannon in robin hood day . in julius caesar they talk of chimney and which wouldn not be invent for another thousand year and and in henry iv they talk about machiavelli and who wasn not even bear yet then . so i think this objection be silly you might as well complain that the play isn not in danish ( after all they live in denmark do not they . ) .