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11/16/07
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
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Reviews Counted:161
Fresh:55
Rotten:106
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
Top CriticIt 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
11/09/07
Top CriticThe work of a director who is intoxicated with the power of cinema.
10/10/07
There 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
Elizabeth achieved its power by focusing on the central idea of how a callow princess became a great queen. In trying to re-create the formula, the sequel merely grasps about for a reason to be, and that makes for dull watching, indeed.
10/11/07
Taken in the proper spirit ... pleasant enough
10/15/07
Despite its lofty aspirations and late 16th century setting, this one belongs right up there with Showgirls in the high-camp section of your local video store.
10/10/07
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
The events beg for Shakespearean gravity, but the only tragedy here is that so little could be made of so much.
10/12/07
Nothing more than a splashy, eclectic pageant complete with barge rides, banquets, indoor forests of wigs, medieval dancers that look like modern mimes and dialogue that makes you wish everyone would shut up.
10/12/07
The main difference between the first film and its new sequel is this: In "Elizabeth," Cate Blanchett emerged as one staunch, formidable queen. In "Elizabeth: The Golden Age," she's been reduced to a drag queen.
10/13/07
Even though the script plays fast and loose with historical facts, that indomitable bulldog spirit rings true and holds you captive for the duration.
10/30/07
Imagine The Sopranos made by NBC. Imagine Braveheart brought to you by The History Channel. Imagine Disney's South Park. That's what a PG-13 Elizabeth is like.
10/12/07
Where's the political sophistication that made the first movie slightly more interesting? That was a decent game of chess. The Golden Age is checkers.
10/12/07
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04/23/09
Elizabeth: The Golden Age squanders its chance to paint history in the fascinating strokes of gray that make for the best cinematic epics.
09/20/07
Elizabeth is the coolest British monarch ever. She's totally bad***.
10/12/07
A handsome but shallow sequel.
11/02/07
Those of us who looked forward to this second installment of a planned trilogy may now dread the third.
10/12/07
Cate Blanchett returns to the role that made her a star, and though this sequel to Elizabeth (1998) is less defensible as history, as florid costume drama it's just as entertaining.
10/11/07
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