Shekhar Kapur filed this movie, very disappointing

Rating: 2/10 (27 April 2008)

I was very excited when I was going to rent this movie. I started watching it immediately I fell in love with costumes, fabrics, sets, great production design; casting was pretty good most of Pirates Of The Caribbean team, and of course Cate Blanchett she was amazing in this movie, but Geoffrey Rush was very underused. I realized, what was bad in this movie is a director, everyone else did a great job. Continuity of events is often broken, confusing scenes at the beginning with young Queen and a doll, hard cuts between shots, loss of drama in events, it doesn't look like a feature film to me, it's more like Discovery Channel DVD to me. Seems like it has a small budget problem, but again bringing great actors together doesn't always mean that movie will become great one, director was obviously very inspired by Pirates Of The Caribbean. However, I really admire what Guy Dyas did as a production designer, all VFX, and costumes were absolutely stunning. For directors shooting movie such as Elisabeth comes with great responsibility, when Ridley Scott was watching this movie he was probably laughing