Unconcerned with narrative constraints, the ‘plot’ of Hamlet X is both brief and almost incidental to James Clayden’s motives: a man is released from prison and moves into a deserted city building with a woman friend, where he reluctantly becomes involved with a production of Hamlet. Haunted by the uncertainty of his past, together with his guilt for exisiting, he becomes more and more like Shakespeare’s infamous Dane.
Director: James Clayden.
Writer: James Clayden.
Stars: Helen Hopkins, Tom Wright, Shelley Lasica, Faruk Avdi, Ian Scott, Ingrid Ohlsson, Margaret Mills, Thomas Eckersley, Kevin Hopkins, Nick Crawford-Smith, Greg Carroll, Peter Green.
Composer: AD HOC.
I kept hoping that there were at leasr SOMETHING that would ‘redeem’ this movie, but not so. I don’t usually give a movie a chance if it starts out as mixed up as this one, but I wasted my time, except to see how messed up that many people’s minds are nowadays.