Elizabeth - The Golden Age (Widescreen Edition)

I watched this to further my knowledge and bring entertaining info to my kiddos.

Love it

I was intrigued by this movie through History Buffs on YouTube when that channel reviewed the 1998 prequel movie ElizabethNow obviously this movie alongside it's prequel film is very inaccurate on a lot of historical detail, and when I mean inaccurate I mean they took a lot of dramatic liberties that you can easily look on a quick google search. Believe me, I did and oof.However, if you disregard the historical authenticity of this film; then let me just say: the costumes, set pieces, music score, and star power really saved this movie. Same goes for the first one IF you look at it from a non-historical perspective; because oof I don't think there's anything lower than a 0/5 stars... maybe -1/5 if you do look at it from that point of view.Go into this movie as a casual watcher first and then go back to the prequel film and this film for the historical watch because... yeah the two reactions are night and day

The cast was flawless, the costumes and sets divine - I couldn't have asked for more.

Amusing to read all the scholars of Elizabethan England opining on the various inaccuracies in this sequel to "Elizabeth." Anyone who watches commercial motion pictures for information about the past, beyond generalities and rough approximations of events, is bound to be disappointed. I recommend any of the marvelous biographies of Elizabeth I--my personal favorite is Anne Somerset's, though Alison Weir has also written an engaging history not only of England's remarkable queen, but also of the age--to anyone who is genuinely interested in the history of Elizabeth's England. Box office contingencies make it necessary for those who make and act in movies to subordinate truth to spectacle--so, best to accept this fact and allow yourself to be entertained without getting into a snit about the size of Westminster Abby or the career of Sir Walter Raleigh.Having said this, I loved the film. Why? I could not take my eyes off of Cate Blanchette. Not only is she strikingly lovely, she has the sort of charisma that I associate with the greatest of movie actors--Katherine Hepburn and Glenda Jackson come to mind at once, as well as the incomparable Meryl Streep. Blanchette mesmerizes--her humanizing of Elizabeth feels just right: she shows us a vulnerable and (in many quarters) despised woman learning how to be not only be a great ruler, but also how to accept the costs of her fate.I'm afraid that apart from Geoffrey Rush, Blanchette was ill-served by her supporting cast (Ralph Finnes was simply awful strutting through "Elizabeth" and the fellow who played Raleigh was mishandled by the director--he should not have been at the center of this film), but this lack of decent supporting performances mattered not one bit. The ending--the "Protestant WInd," which I would guess many viewers find exciting, felt contrived and anti-climactic, but then the film sags every moment that Blancette isn't the center of the action.Blanchette is the film, and it is for her performance that I give it four stars.

Wish there were more episodes!

I have seen Ms. Cate in a couple of the UK Queen Elizabeth, Cate and the entire cast, script, direction and particularly costumes all should had won the oscars!!!

A well-presented tumultuous accounting of English history in the late 1500s with flare.

Great movie/actors

Gran película de mi actriz favorita Cate Blanchett, y a un buen precio.

Cate Blanchett hace un estupendo papel, sigo en espera de la 3a parte. Esta edición es definitivamente mucho mejor que la mexicana, desde la portada.

Un film da vedere

Es blieb leider nicht viel vom Esprit und der Leidenschaftlichkeit des ersten Teils übrig. Trotz der guten Vorlage wurde die Geschichte nur mittelmässig inszeniert. Begeistert vom ersten Teil, hatte ich wohl eine zu grosse Erwartungshaltung an die Fortsetzung - und wurde leider etwas enttäuscht. Selbst die wenigen dramaturgischen Höhepunkte wurden nicht wirklich gut gesetzt. Hier wurde leider nur ein sehr niedriger, kaum erkennbarer Spannungsbogen aufgebaut. Die Handlung wiurde mitunter sogar etwas lieblos und zähflüssig erzählt.Die wahren Mächte dieser Epoche - Politik und Intrigen, die im ersten Film so glaubhaft und brilliant geschildert wurden,welche auch eigentlich die Grösse des Films ausmachten, wurden hier leider in eine Nebenrolle verbannt, zu sehr vernachlässigt.Selbst die hervorragenden schauspielerischen Leistungen der Darsteller können den Film meines Erachtens nicht retten.