Benedict cumberbatch hamlet full movie7/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Later, in assuming an “antic disposition”, Cumberbatch tries on a Native American headdress and then settles for parading around in the scarlet tunic and peaked helmet of a 19th-century infantryman. He actually opens the show, sitting in his room poring over a family album and listening to the gramophone, which denies us the propulsive excitement of the Ghost’s first entries on the battlements. The problem is that Cumberbatch, rather like the panellists in I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, is given a lot of silly things to do. It is a performance full of good touches and quietly affecting in Hamlet’s final, stoical acceptance of death. He is also excellent in “What a piece of work is a man” and has the right air of self-doubt: in the midst of his advice to the First Player on how to act, he suddenly says “but let your own discretion be your tutor”, as if aware of his presumption in lecturing an old pro. “To be or not to be”, about which there has been so much kerfuffle, mercifully no longer opens the show: I still think it works better if placed after, rather than before, the arrival of the players, but Cumberbatch delivers it with a rapt intensity. ![]() He is especially good in the soliloquies. He has a lean, pensive countenance, a resonant voice, a gift for introspection. What makes the evening so frustrating is that Cumberbatch has many of the qualities one looks for in a Hamlet. My initial impression is that Benedict Cumberbatch is a good, personable Hamlet with a strong line in self-deflating irony, but that he is trapped inside an intellectual ragbag of a production by Lyndsey Turner that is full of half-baked ideas. ![]() ![]() After all the hype and hysteria, the event itself comes as an anticlimax. ![]()
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