admittedly and the only reason i watch this film since it be about a decade since it be release be because of ian holm while i be intrigue to see his portrayal of my second favorite character in this play . at any rate and this film be as gritty a anything the old zeff have produce since jesus of nazareth . but some of the best part of the play have be leave out . i understand the directing or edit choice and but i do not think that it really do justice to the play . perhaps i be too much a purist . i would have to direct people ( who have read this far ) toward branagh version and if it weren not that i despise his tendency toward over dramatization . all the same and he play a good hamlet than gibson . but then and weren not we all wait for gibson to prove himself a an actor . now and all he do be to prove that he want to make film in extinct language . perhaps the only shakespearean worthy act here be scofield a the ghost .