Hmmm... not Hrm... but Hmmm

Rating: 6/10 (8 January 2009)

You could do a lot worse then this. For starters, it looks absolutely magnificent. Just take those scenes of the armada. Friggin Oilpaintings. It got a great cast and i find it relatively engaging with an "open" story that throws different threads at you. Its true that its flawed. Its like the director isn't really sure what part of Elizabeth or her history he wants to explore, so it comes across as a little confused. Personally i found the triangle drama rather interesting, not the love aspects of it, so much, but the parts where the Queen lives through her servant (see, the dance scene, for instance). Its most glaring flaw is probably the bad charachstions of the Spanish king and his followers , but really, its not in the forgreound, and you have seen much worse.