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Was it autism? No doubt this is the most visually splendid of Hamlet adaptions, but Branaugh is absolutely awful in both how he directs dialogue and how he delivers it. It's all extremely self-conscious, all the lines are delivered like small town production, they're over-the-top and oratory at times. After watching Laurence Olivier's and even Mel Gibson's renditions of Hamlet, this guy comes off as awful, as if he's reading poetry before an audience at some family reunion, as opposed to being the part of the person he's portraying. And the way he makes the other actors deliver their dialogue is just as bad, the ghostly whisper of Hamlet's father is so off-putting and destroys the actor's capacity to naturally express himself, and Ophelia talking to Polonius about Hamlet sending her the letter is soap opera tier.

Again, this guy has an excellent eye for the visual, for unfortunately, he's completely autistic about the dialogue, which is kind of the point with Shakespeare. Heck, he for some reason he felt it required include every piece of dialogue for this play even those Shakespeare himself cut. Why? This isn't even a play, it's a film, and thus the dialogue ought to be heavily cut in order for it to work with visual storytelling. The film Coriolanus, the one with Fiennes, is an ideal example of Shakespearean play turned into film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TArNqebm_Gg

This guy's Hamlet, by comparison, is terrible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjuZq-8PUw0

Compare with Gibson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf2TpWsPvgI

It completely blow Branaugh's vanity production away