Critical movie review of Hamlet (2000) directed by Michael Almereyda

HAMLET (2000)
A film review by ____________
Rating: * (out of ****)
How brave is it for a director to have the late Hamlet's ghost appear in front of a Pepsi vending machine? Or have the lead character telling Ophelia to "Get thee to a nunnery" via a phone answering machine? Or, maybe the boldest move of all, stage the classic "To be or not to be" soliloquy in a Blockbuster video store? In this modern version of Hamlet directed by Michael Almereyda, Hamlet returns to New York City to find his father, the CEO of the Denmark Corporation, to be murdered. Suspicions swirl around Hamlet's u…