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Jude Law's Hamlet on Red Bull

Lots of shouting, little introspection.

How is Broadway’s new production of Hamlet, which stars Jude Law and opens on Wednesday? “Mr. Law approaches his role with the focus, determination and adrenaline level of an Olympic track competitor staring down an endless line of hurdles,” Ben Brantley writes in The New York Times. That's not a compliment. Brantley writes, “People who ask for a little introspection from the man whose name is a byword for that activity may find it perplexing that this Hamlet never seems to look inward, which means that he never grows up—or grows, period.” The rest of the actors appear to have taken their m.o. from Law, resulting in a production “generate little psychological tension.” He ends, however, with a compliment for the production’s Barneys-esque wardrobe: “the sleeves on which Hamlet wears his feelings are seriously chic.”