After seeing “Elizabeth: The Golden Age”this evening, I had to agree that it wasn’t a complete fantasy. There was an English queen in 1585, and her name was Elizabeth. Pretty much everything else is a wash. But even if you could make a case that what director Shekhar Kapur was historically accurate, and you can’t, that’s hardly the worst thing about the film. Much of the first half is so choppy it looks as if it were edited by someone with ADHD. And much of the second half wastes the talents of the great Cate Blanchett, her generation’s version of Bette Davis, by making her Elizabeth as much of a needy-whiny as the big screen has ever seen. Continued below/Dan Webster, Movies & More.
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this evening, I had to agree that it wasn’t a complete fantasy. There was an English queen in 1585, and her name was Elizabeth. Pretty much everything else is a wash. But even if you could make a case that what director Shekhar Kapur was historically accurate, and you can’t, that’s hardly the worst thing about the film. Much of the first half is so choppy it looks as if it were edited by someone with ADHD. And much of the second half wastes the talents of the great Cate Blanchett, her generation’s version of Bette Davis, by making her Elizabeth as much of a needy-whiny as the big screen has ever seen. Continued below/Dan Webster, Movies & More.
