Grand Theft Hamlet

2024

Action / Animation / Documentary

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 94% · 80 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 76% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 2861 2.9K

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Plot summary

Two unemployed friends have a fresh idea: they want to stage Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' in Grand Theft Auto. But even in a virtual world, reality intrudes in a wild and trippy film shot entirely inside the ultra-violent video game.

Director

Sam Crane Photo
Sam Crane

Top cast

Sam Crane Photo
Sam Crane as Hamlet
Lizzie Wofford Photo
Lizzie Wofford as Gertrude
Tilly Steele Photo
Tilly Steele as Ophelia
Pinny Grylls Photo
Pinny Grylls as Filmmaker
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838.07 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
R
Subtitles de  us  fr  it  nl  pt  es  tr  
25 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 8
1.68 GB
1920*1080
English 5.1
R
Subtitles de  us  fr  it  nl  pt  es  tr  
25 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 58

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by tender_buttkiss 6 / 10

A weird little time capsule movie for a

A weird little time capsule movie for a weird time in history, when a global pandemic forced us into lockdown and for some, this became an opportunity to create. Going into this, I thought I'd be seeing something much more different than the end product, and I couldn't help but feel a bit let down with the actual performance of the play. Felt like it was jumping around and just showing the highlights. Maybe that's for the best. But it is an interesting and ambitious idea, trying go crowd source a Shakespeare production with people playing characters in a digital world. Genuinely teared up at bits too.
Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

Lockdown played havoc with so many lives, but

Lockdown played havoc with so many lives, but professionally none more so than those in the entertainment industry. With theatres and cinemas all closed, their livelihoods dried up and a serious degree of ennui crept in to their day to day lives. One escape from that was "Grand Theft Auto" and that's where we meet jobbing actors Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen. Two forty-somethings who were dealing with this situation by shooting as many folks as they could online. The former lives with Pinny and has a couple of kids, the latter lives on his own and is struggling to find some sort of motivation. It's whilst playing the game one day that they find an outdoor auditorium and hit on the idea of performing "Hamlet" there. Swiftly they realise that standing on the stage belting out the best of the bard is only going to get their characters shot, then that two folks aren't going to be able to cover all the roles - so they embark on a project to recruit other players to fill the roles. What now ensues sees these men introduced to some serious would-be Thespians, some folks who think he wrote "Harry Potter" and some generally eclectic characters who all decide that this can be done after all. I'm not sure Shakespeare could ever have envisaged his play being put on using warplanes or giant blimps whilst the actors faced real peril (though I am sure we've all seen plays on stage where that might have been a benefit!) but as the two men start to become more absorbed with there mission it starts to become just as compelling to watch. Can they do it? How is their obsession impacting on their "real" lives? I have never played GTA in my life so was a little apprehensive that not knowing the game might impact on my enjoyment. It didn't at all, indeed that proved quite a fun template for their scenario as the mix of characters they encountered showed quite clearly that these men were not the only ones adrift in a closed-down world. As you'd expect, it is a quickly paced affair and I thought well worth and hour and a half.
Reviewed by Just_A_McOpinion 7 / 10

To watch, or not to watch...that is the question.

First and foremost, do not make the same misjudgment of this film that I did. This is not a complete recreation of 'Hamlet' in Grand Theft Auto, rather a documentary on the making of this concept/production with glimpses of its execution.That being said, I really appreciated the central idea behind this piece and found the journey that this documentary was portarying to be full of humour, honesty, and integrity. In a time of lockdown and social isolation, it was genuinely moving to see how certain uses of technology, unusually combined with the timelessness of theatre/Shakespeare, could bring people together, even between those of different backgrounds, experiences, and languages.I was surprised by how a guy in a green alien skin endeared me. Despite everyone involved in this documentary being visually portrayed by these otherwise unexpressive video game characters, the voice overs really shine in making the audience emotionally connect with these people, their passions, and lives.The one drawback I can think to this documentary is that of the pacing. Even though this film is only 90 minutes, something about it slowed down time for me - though I'm not sure why, and I may be the only one who felt this.However, this pacing issue does not put me off recommending this documentary to others, due to it's sincerity and uniqueness in concept.
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