Woman. Warrior. Queen.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Clive Owen, Abbie Cornish, Samantha Morton, Jordi Molla, Rhys Ifans, Adam Godley, Tom Hollander |
| Director |
Shekhar Kapur |
| Screenplay | William Nicholson, Michael Hirst |
| Music | Craig Armstrong, A.R. Rahman |
| Cinematography | Remi Adefarasin |
| Editing | Jill Bilcock |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2007 |
| Produced by | Motion Picture ZETA Producktionsgesellschaft, Studio Canal, Working Title Films |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
Trailer: Small | Medium | Large
| Genre | Historical, drama |
| Language | Mild slubs (historical) |
| Nudity | Very, very mild and infrequent / once |
| Sex | Mild allusion |
| Violence | Strong and intense, but brief, bloody, torture. War violence |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | None |
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Frightening / Tense Scenes |
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Tense Family Scenes |
| Music (Scary/Tense) |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Lara de Matos  Her royal travesty. | 5 |  |
| Die Burger Mariana Malan Genoeg drama en skouspel on die kyker to oorompel. | 15 |  |
| Cape Times Carina Chocano Soapie styling takes shine off Golden Age. | 10 |  |
| The Citizen Peter Feldman Elizabeth: The Golden Age will appeal to those who enjoy the vast vistas of the historical costume drama. | 16 | |
| Sunday Times Barry Ronge Tishtosh to the facts and full speed ahead to adventure, aesthetics and intrigue. | 10 | |
| BBC Stella Papamichael It's a wonderfully seductive, grandiose, unashamedly operatic portrayal of Queen Elizabeth's finest hour, and it's even more rousing because of the chinks already exposed in her armour. | 15 | |
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert Elizabeth, the Golden Age is weighed down by its splendor. There are scenes where the costumes are so sumptuous, the sets so vast, the music so insistent, that we lose sight of the humans behind the dazzle of the production. | 13 |  |
| eye Weekly Jason Anderson Overblown and painfully lacking in subtlety, it's a travesty when compared not only with the original film but the recent television miniseries. | 5 | |
| ReelViews James Berardinelli This is an adequate follow-up to the critically lauded Elizabeth and will satisfy (if not overjoy) some fans of the genre, but it does not top its predecessor. | 13 | |
| Rolling Stone Peter Travers 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 | |
| ScreenItIt's highly unlikely the film's performances, writing, and/or direction will receive the same praise, simply because they're not as good and clearly pale in comparison to the first cinematic reign of this queen. | 7 | |
| Metacritic.com 35 critics | 9 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 150 critics | 10 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Lacks the heart and creativity of the original Elizabeth. | 7 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 5743 Netizens Good Fun but Flawed History | 14 | |
Average .. 53% | 11 | |