With now 53 Reviews Counted, Elizabeth: The Golden Age has moved up to a weak 26%. Movies like The Game Plan and The Heartbreak Kid are even sitting higher than it.This is a travesty my people. We have some big A-list actors, Oscar winners and nominees and an up and coming star and we still can't get a decent score out of it: Closer's Clive Owen, In America's Samantha Morton, Shine's Geoffrey Rush and Candy's Abbie Cornish.
"Cate Blanchett can do anything, even play Bob Dylan, but she can't save this creaky sequel to her star-making 1998 biopic of Elizabeth I."
-Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"Silence would be a blessing to Elizabeth: The Golden Age, which substitutes symphonic din in place of drama."
-NEWSDAY
"We are left choking in the billows and folds of Queen Elizabeth I's fabulous finery without a single insight into the woman among them, let alone the most celebrated period in English history."
-WASHINGTON POST
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ReplyDeleteu know what though the critics ave no idea what they're talking about...THE GOLDEN AGE was a wonderful film, considerably not better than the first however still a solid and satisfactory sequel to the first CATE BLANCHETT in my opinion can do no wrong and she proves it here...and also Samantha Morton for a small role really puts a lot into Mary Stuart...one of her scenes is the most powerful in the whole film and yet she does nothing but stare in it.
ReplyDeleteI am not surprised. The whole thing seemed so rushed. And anyone who has seen the brilliant BBC production of this same story with Helen Mirren, knows that it is almost impossible to top that.
ReplyDeleteAll said and done all that money went into making one of the best trailers this year!
Can't deny that Cate and Samantha were fabulous and very worth watching.
ReplyDeleteI agree that there was no plot; it was simply a series of vignettes to either humor the viewer (the "here's tobacco: it's stimulating" part) or rile them up (her big speech). That said, the acting was good, the effects and costumes marvelous. Major plot holes earn it only 2 stars, but it's not the complete failure everyone wants it to be.
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