Elizabeth The Golden Age sure looks great (worthy of its Best Costume Design Oscar), but it's a dull drama.
It's like William Shakespeare wrote the screenplay and loaded it with dialogue. Yawn.
Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, Geoffrey Rush and Abbie Cornish do their best, but can't save it. Even the climactic sea battle, when the mighty Spanish armada was destroyed by the outnumbered British fleet, is a let down. Too little, too late, no thrills.
Despite the mighty resources of CGI at his disposal, direct Shekhar Kapur is outgunned by such classic movies as The Sea Hawk (1940), whose sea battles really were thrilling and dramatic. Matinee idol Errol Flynn and Warner Bros. did it the old fashioned way, with models and live action on impressive studio sets.
Elizabeth The Golden Age is nowhere near as good as its predecessor, 1998's Elizabeth, but at least has some decent extra featurettes.
Disappointing, Your Majesty.
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