David Tennant as Hamlet... excellent!

Saw the most recent RSC stage production of Hamlet, which has been turned into a BBC TV movie, but now can be found on YouTube in multiple segments. Just follow the trail... if you have two to three hours to kill if you watch it without a break.

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In this production, everyone is in modern clothes (tee shirts, jeans, etc) and has some modern touches (like the security cameras and the old school film camera), but everyone still spoke the same lines as written by the Bard all those years ago. Kinda like the Baz Luhrmann version of Romeo+Juliet.

I've mentioned before that I am neither a Shakespeare buff nor fan, but I'd watch almost anything else David Tennant is in (his Doctor Who stint excluded), and there's also Patrick Stewart as both the Ghost and as Claudius, yay!

I like Tennant as Hamlet, he's put in the right amount of crazy for Hamlet. The acting here keeps getting compared to his Tenth Doctor acting, which I'm not sure if it's a good thing or not since he started this right after Doctor Who.

I've always heard about Patrick Stewart and his RSC background, but have never seen it before until now.
Well done, sir.

While I don't mind watching the occasional staged play, but I like movie adaptations better (even the Mamma Mia! movie, but I digress) for the added visual background stimuli, especially when done well as it was the case here. The soliloquies are well shot with the actors looking dead straight into the camera, and into the viewer's soul. Spooky.

It's worth watching, whether you like the play or either Tennant and/or Stewart.