In this very disappointing movie almost everything seems to be wrong

Rating: 4/10 (7 November 1998)

If Mr Kapur only wanted to tell the audience about the nightmare Elizabeth went through, he has brilliantly succeeded. However, almost everything else seems wrong about this movie. Most obtrusive is the soundtrack with its extreme examples of ugly singing. The choice of the music, for example Mozart's famous Requiem, composed at least 250 years later, is also very unfortunate.
The storytelling does not make sense either. The movie starts as abruptly as it ends, and despite Cate Blanchett's great performance, one cannot feel involved with her or anyone else.
At the end of the movie most of Elizabeth's impressive career has yet to come. As the movie ends when there's no more blood to show, one is left puzzled about the intentions of the director. Can anyone imagine a movie about Churchill which ends in 1939?