Biased

Rating: 4/10 (6 May 2011)

First things first: I'm not Spanish, I'm French. I thought the acting in this movie was second to none (I'm a massive fan of Cate Blanchett anyway), the costumes, dialogues etc.. were great.. Nevertheless, Historically speaking what a load of nonsense (to be polite. First of all the way the Spanish were portrayed was ridiculous ..and stupidity really..especially considering that Spain was THE most powerful Nation of its time..so portraying the King of Spain as a pale feeble little weird man was frankly laughable..anyway.. Besides this, I'd like to stress that the only reason why Spain did not manage to invade Britain had more to do with pure luck frankly and to the fact that the winds were blowing so hard at the time that they destroyed half of the Spanish Fleet (Armada)..In fact, had it not been for said winds (and for the fact that the Spanish Armada had already been weakened/tired from fighting with the French) Spain would have surely succeeded, Queen Elizabeth or not!!
I was actually discussing this with an English colleague of mine ( I live in the UK) who totally agreed with me! So even if the English do.... Anyhow, can't really expect much from a movie made for and by Anglos Saxons can we? I guess their vision had to be pretty bias.. Good entertainment though..if you don't look into too much, lol! :o)