“Grand Theft Hamlet” was one of my favorite movies that I managed to see in 2024 … and I saw a lot of movies last year.
On the surface, the prospect of a movie shot entirely within Grand Theft Auto Online seems like a bizarre proposition; Los Santos is, by design, an anarchic lawless world. Wresting control over Rockstar Games’ online sandbox is nigh on impossible; anyone who has spent even a few moments on the streets of San Andreas will know a fellow avatar could take you out with a speeding car, an RPG, or a fighter jet out of the blue.
With that chaotic but richly detailed world as its backdrop, “Grand Theft Hamlet” — a movie about trying to stage Shakespeare’s eponymous play within GTA — shouldn’t work, but it does. You need only look at that impressive 94% score on <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/grand_theft_hamlet" target="_blank" data-url="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/grand_theft_hamlet"
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