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.
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10/11/07
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
141 - 160 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticSilence would be a blessing to Elizabeth: The Golden Age, which substitutes symphonic din in place of drama.
10/11/07
Torture! Intrigue! Sex! Treachery! Holy war! Cate Blanchett in royal drag! Clive Owen in pirate drag! We are highly amused.
10/11/07
Stilted and juvenile, more Classics Illustrated than classic....the dialogue is pocked with banalities and howlers.
10/11/07
With dark eyes peering from behind white face paint and headdresses swirling above her like forces of nature, Elizabeth is less a human monarch than a mythical goddess.
10/11/07
The work of a director who is intoxicated with the power of cinema.
10/10/07
With respect to costumes and set design, this is a sumptuous affair. The script is less even, as is the pacing.
10/10/07
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
Too bad Kapur's new, glittering sequel shows up feeling prematurely old, square, and cautious.
10/10/07
A completely useless, over-enunciated film -- an instant antique.
10/10/07
The filmmakers must've noticed what a hit that first film was among teenage girls, and thus for the sequel instructed Blanchett to play the 52-year-old monarch as if auditioning for High School Musical 3.
10/09/07
Highbrow camp masquerading as a history lesson soapier than any bottle of detergent.
10/09/07
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.
10/09/07
Elizabeth: The Golden Age is an unholy mixture of the banal and the bombastic.
10/08/07
Here, the Golden Age is converted to pewter.
10/08/07
It's a full-scale star performance in every sense...and I wouldn't be surprised if, like Helen Mirren last year, Blanchett walks away with an Elizabethan Oscar.
10/04/07
The way Elizabeth: The Golden Age tells it, the Spanish Armada's defeat by the British Empire was the orgasm The Virgin Queen never had.
10/03/07
A historical costume drama - with far more emphasis on the 'costume' than the 'drama.' And there's no excuse for such a deafening score!
09/28/07
Bombastic music and lavish costumes cannot disguise the film's coming across as a ho-hum high-school lesson in historical fiction.
09/25/07
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
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