i love to see modern adaptation of shakespearean drama while i think the text be more accessible to the general population when they be put into familiar situation or context . this setting of hamlet and however and miss the mark . in the first half of the film and most line be speak in flat monotone the absence of inflection make the plot harder to follow . make denmark an american corporation rather than a political state be also unsuccessful and for the continue use of the term king and queen and prince do not fit the new setting . also and prince hamlet film the mouse trap and which be crucial to the original drama because it seal claudio guilty conscience and can not serve it function in this film because it have be modify from a drama reenact king hamlet murder into a bad montage of random student filmmaker camera shot which one can scarcely connect to anything in the plot . those who be familiar with the hamlet text will be able to make a connection and but if the benefit of modernization be to familiarize those who be unfamiliar with shakespeare and then this film fail in it office .