It's not at all a bad film.

| Nov 20, 2019

Performances all fall in a middle range between the competent and the lackluster.

| Jul 4, 2008

It's a surprisingly successful venture, decked out in Anglo-Saxon styles and with a brooding, robust castle setting which oozes horse muck.

| Jun 24, 2006

[Mel Gibson] is by far the best part of Mr. Zeffirelli's sometimes slick but always lucid and beautifully cinematic version of the play.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 4, 2003

Gibson gives the melancholy Dane an earnest but pedestrian reading.

Full Review | Jun 6, 2001

The style of Franco Zeffirelli's Hamlet, with Mel Gibson in the title role, is robust and physical and -- don't take this the wrong way -- upbeat.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Reduced to 'Master Pieces Theater,' Shakespeare's text nevertheless gains in force what it loses in integrity.

| Jan 1, 2000

A fine introduction to the greatest play in history, but fairly lightweight for purists.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

There's nothing embarrassing about Zeffirelli's brisk new version, nor anything particularly remarkable; it's an entirely credible, middle-of-the-road production.

| Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 19, 1990