It may have been a gamble for director Shekhar Kapur to pick up the threads of his acclaimed film Elizabeth from nine years earlier but the result is overtly satisfying
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11/09/07
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
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Reviews Counted:162
Fresh:55
Rotten:107
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: This sequel is full of lavish costumes and elaborate sets, but lacks the heart and creativity of the original Elizabeth
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $16,264,475
Synopsis: Reprising the roles they originated in seven-time Academy AwardŽ-nominated Elizabeth, Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush return for a gripping historical thriller laced with treachery and... [More]
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Clive Owen, Rhys Ifans
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Reviews for Elizabeth: The Golden Age
1 - 20 (sorted by critic A-Z; Australian critics are listed first)
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11/16/07
Top CriticGolden Age starts well, and with sharp wit and crisp dialogue. But as the story moves toward the tentative romance with Raleigh, the film drifts into melodrama...
10/20/07
An epic bio-pic has been turned into a Lifetime movie.
10/13/07
Every so often Kapur shoots from behind a huge stone column or pillar; most of these pillars exhibit more personality than the movie.
10/11/07
odaje sve nedostatke i ograni%u010Denja olovnih vremena u kojima je nastao
07/15/09
... the intrigue that made the original Elizabeth so gripping is simply an awkward complication here, emphasis on the awkward.
10/11/07
Despite good performances all around, particularly the ever-brilliant Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age is a gilded ornament, speculative and uninterested in much besides this queen's matters of heart.
10/12/07
Betrayal, war, love triangles and most importantly, Cate Blanchett proves to be able to capture strength, anger and sadness better...
03/03/08
The elaborate costumes and set decoration provide the only interest.
11/09/07
With respect to costumes and set design, this is a sumptuous affair. The script is less even, as is the pacing.
10/10/07
Like a bad second season of a breakout TV show, the original was laudable but the sequel's simply laughable.
10/11/07
The movie contains the usual palace intrigue and overblown dialogue. The only line missing is the one referring to Elizabeth as a king in petticoats.
10/20/07
The movie contains the usual palace intrigue and overblown dialogue. The only line missing is the one referring to Elizabeth as a king in petticoats.
10/20/07
God save Cate Blanchett. Without her performance, this second history lesson on Elizabeth I's reign would be a little dry.
10/13/07
Where Kapur's first Elizabeth was cool, cerebral, fascinatingly concerned with complex plotting, the new movie is pitched at the level of a Jean Plaidy romantic novel.
11/02/07
Top CriticThere are movies that are so bad they're good, and then there are movies that are so bad they're completely awesome.
10/20/07
They wrote themselves into a corner from the git go by making the central relationship one that couldn't be consummated.
09/19/07
Makes court intrigue about as exciting as jury duty.
10/17/07
A sequel in which the Virgin Queen struggles to hold on to power in a time of great religious violence and personal challenges.
10/12/07
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