Back when all I knew of Mel Gibson was Mad Max, the Road Warrior, if you had told me that he would play Hamlet I would have laughed and said, “Sure, and Sylvester Stallone will be playing King Lear and Macbeth too!”
But who knew? Gibson is good.
I like this speech because it seems to cover the fact that depending on the events of the day each of us can view the world and all in it as either a lovely frame or a sterile promontory. Humanity can be either like an angel or the quintessence of dust.
Gibson is a good actor and I don’t think he loses by comparison to Olivier or Branagh when performing Hamlet.