great historical movie

Rating: 9/10 (18 September 2009)

first - i loved blanchetts acting in this movie, it's great i have not watched the first movie yet, but i surely will after this one this is a historical movie with very well created mood, a nice cast and very good acting my general interest for history (but must admit i have not read much about this particular period of English history yet) has certainly added a point in favor of this movie :) i also loved the fact that this movie shows us the good ones using torture to gain their informations, which was surely historically correct too many movies try to show us perfection where there were just human beings as us ...
the constant praying and all the priest running around are right for that period of history too, for sure Robert Fisk has complained about this movie delivering a wrong/eased quote of Elizabeth when she stands before her troops, but since i didn't learn about this in history and since i really liked this movie i couldn't see his problem this movie also shows us some really good pictures and have i mentioned blanchett's acting is great? ;) the main flaw in my opinion would be the quite flat character of the Spanish king ... in my opinion they should have either showed him less or showed a bit more about him ...
anyway, absolutely worth watching, a fav ...