Cate Blanchett,
Geoffrey Rush,
Clive Owen,
Rhys Ifans,
Jordi Molla
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Actress Cate Blanchett returns to her Oscar-nominated role and director Shekhar Kapur steps back into the director's chair for this belated sequel to the critically acclaimed 1998 biopic Elizabeth tha... read more
Directed by: Shekhar Kapur
Release Date: October 12, 2007
Keywords:
epic,
war,
historical,
shot,
average,
period,
disappointing,
cate blanchett,
first one,
clive owen,
historically accurate,
Cate Blanchett ,
Geoffrey Rush ,
Clive Owen ,
Sir Walter Raleigh
DVD Release Date: February 5, 2008
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April 2, 2012This unofficial sequel to Shekhar Kapur's first film about Queen Elisabeth the First manages to reunite the fantastic Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush, reprising their roles and keeping the visual style about the queen's first years of reign. This is the story of her flirt with S... read more
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October 29, 2011Phenomenal sequel to Elizabeth, Cate Blanchett delivers a stunning performance in the title role. Though the film has gotten some flack for its romantic storyline, it's also part of history. I thought that this film was just as strong as the first, and that Blanchett delivered ye... read more
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October 3, 2011This is the sequel to the film that made Cate Blanchett's career, and, while it does have it's moments, it doesn't quite live up to the level set by its predecessor.
The story this time out focuses on a few things: the schemings of Mary Queen of Scots, the campaign against the ... read more -
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December 31, 2010"Based upon" the life of Elizabeth I, The Golden Age is the kind of film that causes the words "sumptuous" and "lavish" to be bandied around, but it seemed to me to be somehow very TV standard. It is littered with historical innaccuracies and the superficial script plays out like... read more
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November 5, 2010As good as the first one, but for different reasons. I liked the second Elizabeth film for its increased action and for Clive Owen, who steadily stole every scene he was in. I was wishing for Shakespeare to make an appearance, but the defeat of the Spanish Armada was a fine conso... read more
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August 3, 2010Two Aussies playing the roles of Britain's historical figures, and yet everything works out for the best. It feels like an episode of the Tudors mixed with The Man for All Seasons.
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December 21, 2009Unlike the first and far superior film, this film is riddled with historical inaccuracies. It's actually quite shocking and insulting and I'm afraid Shekhar Kapur's reputation is in tatters. The film looks beautiful and the Armada scene was visually stunning, it just needed to be... read more
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October 26, 2009fb619846742A decent, but overall flawed look on Queen Elizabeth, her love affair with Sir Walter Raleigh, and how she ignited a war with Spain. It seems the love story was meant to be secondary, but it takes on more importance as the film goes on, while the plot that should've been primary,... read more
Critic Reviews
October 19, 2007
Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com
October 17, 2007
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth: The Golden Age, from a screenplay by William Nicholson and Michael Hirst, turned out to be more rousingly entertaining than many of its less-than-lukewarm reviews had led me... Full Review
October 15, 2007
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
I can almost recommend this film as a great-looking, bombastic guilty pleasure. But the soundtrack is unbearable, the soap opera love triangle -- laughable.
October 12, 2007
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Bogus history can make a crackling good adventure yarn, and Kapur piles on the treachery and romance. Full Review
October 12, 2007
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
From its extravagant costumes to its pompous score, The Golden Age is packed with distractions. But the biggest of all is the story itself, which works so mightily to tarnish the queen at its core. Full Review
October 12, 2007
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Expect a fast-paced, beautifully mounted and well-acted soap opera with overripe dialogue that plays fast and loose with history -- just like they did in the '30s, '40s and '50s -- and you won't come ... Full Review
October 12, 2007
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
Even the chance to see Cate Blanchett strut and fret upon the stage, shooting haughty glances left and right, isn't enough reason to tour this rambling Tudor mansion, full of overstuffed bedrooms and ... Full Review
October 12, 2007
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle
The danger in making a costume drama is that all of it will be as lifeless as wax figures. Kapur escapes this fate by relying on sex and a luminous star capable of being at once regal and alluring. Full Review
October 12, 2007
Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News
Every time the camera finally settles on Blanchett's regal cheekbones, it's a relief. Full Review
October 12, 2007
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Elizabeth: The Golden Age places its gilded head upon the chopping block right from the opening salvo, replacing its predecessor's cunning with bombast. Full Review
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