Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Thank you, Australia for Cate the Great!:

What a wonderful country Australia is to have given the world such cinematic wonders as Judy Davis, Geoffrey Rush, Gillian Armstrong, Babe the Pig, and Mel Gibson. And now they have really tipped the scale by presenting to the world the brilliant and beautiful young actress Cate Blanchett.

Cate is miraculous in the role of Queen Elizabeth. She breathtakingly transforms the young, naive princess into the formidable monarch of England's past. She adds vulnerablity and frailty to her portrait. Hers is a... more info

Regal Drama:

This baroque offering tells the tale of how the embattled Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett) - a Protestant princess in a catholic court - rose to become the queen of England in name and deed. The story opens with the impending death of Mary, Elizabeth's Catholic half-sister and the reigning ruler of England. Religious persecution of Protestants includes burning at the stake - an horrific display at the story's start. Unable to stave death or produce an heir, Mary paves the way for her half-sister's ascension -... more info

Entertaining, but wildly inaccurate:

If you're not bothered by historical inaccuracies, then go ahead and check out this movie. It's extremely well-acted for the most part, although Fiennes's Dudley turns milksop in an entirely fictitious turn of events that aligns him with a Catholic plot to replace Elizabeth with Mary, Queen of Scots (whose death in the movie is all wrong, too). Events from decades later are all condensed into what is clearly supposed to be the first year or two of Elizabeth's reign (which begain in 1558): Norfolk didn't... more info

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