What happened to the editing?

Rating: 9/10 (12 October 2007)

I thought this had all of the components of an excellent movie...good actors, great sets, exciting plots, the costumes were excellent. But I have to tell you the microphone boom sitting in the middle of the scene distracted the heck out of me, and I swear it deserved it's own credit in the cast line up we saw so much of it, that and the microphone hanging over everyone's head and peeking into the scenes. What ever happened to editing? The lack of it ruined this movie for me!!!!!! The synopsis at the end of the movie telling about the consequences of the loss of the Spanish Armada doesn't even appear on the screen, you can tell it's supposed to be there, you can see the top of the letters......weird. This is the worst edited big money movie I think I've seen in years. It's a shame because it's so good in so many other ways.