Don't believe this "Historical" Drama

Rating: Null/10 (30 March 1999)

As evidenced by the other comments here on this film, movies can make people believe anything. I anticipated this movie was great excitement, only to leave the theatre appalled beyond words. Do NOT believe what you see in this banal attempt to entertain. Grammercy has the nerve to bill this, what could have been an amazing film, as historical. Nobles were not killed en masse, Norfolk did not have that kinds of power over the court, Walsingham did not play seductive games with Mary (de Guise no less!), etc. Even much of the costuming was wrong! Cate Blanchett, Joseph Fiennes and Geoffrey Rush are all fine actors, I wish not to debate this. But the facts are, history has enough excitement and fascinating stories, there is no need to embellish...or completely change...the facts. I beg people, pick up a book and learn the facts before praising this disappointment of a movie.