Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Cate is a wondrous actress but she is scandalously ill served here, and not just by the facile nature of the dialogue... It's as if the director has a checklist of the characteristics he wishes her to display and she should just get on with it.

But saddled with this dopey script, [Blanchett] is stuck pulling a series of poses and wearing one ornate gown after another.

A pedigreed romance, an excuse for Blanchett to bind herself in satin and channel Kate Hepburn.

If this is a film that irritates nearly as much as it pleases, we do get a sense of the times, and of the lady in question. The eyes, if not the brain, are certainly given a workout that they will remember.

See it anyway for Blanchett's soulful modulation between queenly command and womanly anguish.

Enjoyed best in stops and starts. Doesn't cohere into a compelling narrative, but particular scenes are memorable and fun to watch.

As an historical reenactment it suffers from a great deal of simplification in order to make complex events quickly and easily understandable, and as a drama it suffers from a great deal of build that never really pays on it's promise.

Calamitous

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