there be a lot of thing go against this movie for me before i watch it . first and i be a typical high school senior and in a shakespeare class i do not really even like and much less understood half of . shakespeare would be no more than unintelligible without me pour all my concentration into his almost encrypt play . encrypt with his extremely difficult to understand language . and then i still wouldn not get most of it . second and it be 4 hour long . i never think that could be a good thing . well let me tell you something . this movie be so masterful and so beautiful and i actually understood all the language a it be be perform . now and the script be follow to the letter in this movie and the same script that be incomprehensible to me in shakespeare class . and here i be my mind opening and me understand it . i be doubt myself while watch the movie almost . but lo and behold . when perform and and only then and shakespeare come to life . so this version of hamlet show me that shakespeare be indeed a master and who write great story . when i saw it on the big screen and especially in the high budget major motion picture style ( with beautiful cinematography and photography ) and and act amazingly by brannagh and cast and somehow . i understand what be go on . what be be say . the language be awesome and passionate . it allow for more raw emotion . when word can not describe something and maybe shakespeare word can . i still hold to this day that fist of the north star ( animate and english dub ) be the great movie ever make . no movie provide more sheer entertainment . but for a movie to come close to dethrone fist from that position ( which hamlet do it come close ) be truly amaze . awe inspiring . it wasn not a movie . it be an event . even more amazing and it make me appreciate shakespeare . wow . powerful . powerful be the word . one of the rare and truly powerful movie out there . this get 2 hundred trillion star out of infinity star . yes yes . by the way and all you kid out there in a shakespeare class . forget it . youre waste youre time . you have to see the play perform . only then will justice be do to them .