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...understandably won Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival) makes you laugh and cry and hope for him, although you expect a heartbreaking finale of tragic proportions from the beginning of the movie. But Hoskins' role as a stepped on underdog doesn't make room for his near-Shakespearean tragic potential, and you leave the theater feeling cheated...
Clearly rising above the general adequacy is Miller, whose combination of verbal and athletic dexterity makes Jack Point at once the most convincing and most entertaining figure in the show. Whether leaping and somersaulting across the stage or acting the mock-Shakespearean trickster Gilbert envisioned Point to be, Miller possesses the vibrancy necessary to ignite the show...
...Whoever wrote it had no external sense of metrics or a good ear--and Shakespeare certainly had a good ear," agreed Gwynne B. Evans, Cabot Professor of English Literature Emeritus. "It doesn't strike me as being particularly Shakespearean in any sense...
...Shakespearean Syllogisms...
...STUDENTS' PERFORMANCE of Hamlet in an unfamiliar language--English--makes their acting and dialogue purposely stilted. The result is an hilarious version of the Shakespearean play. Fox Major, played by Wood Foster, is wonderful as the gangly-legged Hamlet and constantly mistakes meanings of words--for example, by holding up three fingers when he counts...