This trendy update of Shakespeare's tragedy retains some original dialogue, but relocates the great Dane and his doings to the wheeler-dealer world of modern-day Wall Street. The play's broad thrusts still survive - and thrive - in their new settings. But the director struggles to contemporise specific sequences. Prime case of things going from Bard to worse is the handling of the famous graveside scene, where Hamlet has a one-to-one with his father's dead jester, Yorick. This Hamlet (Ethan Hawke) half-mumbles some vague semblance of the soliloquy while plucking from his eyebrow a bone fragment from a 'gangland' hit. Alas, poor Shakespeare! Performance-wise, Hawke has all the charisma of cardboard. But their are brighter turns from Bill Murray, Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles and Kyle MacLachlan. Flawed, but displaying a definite intelligence at work, this is Shakespeare for the young and hip. It won't please the purists. But then you can't make a Hamlet without breaking a few egos.