Hammy Hamlet

I'm a Shakespeare head and although this is an interesting interpretation whoever thought Mel Gibson would make a good Hamlet must be mad. Hamlet is meant to be a tortured soul a little too in touch with his feminine side and not a macho action hero. There is no subtlety to Gibson's performance as he gurns and grimaces his way through Shakespeare's wonderful soliloquys as if they were no more than stage school audition pieces. The question as to what the Ghost is and from where it comes is almost irrelevant, which is odd given that the existence or non-existence of Purgatory is central to Hamlet's dilemma on whether to take revenge on Claudius and the way he reacts to his mother's remarriage. Over-simplified twaddle!