Melodramatic and Offensive

Rating: 6/10 (15 October 2007)

I am honestly tired of women being portrayed as little girls even when they are QUEENS! She is the queen of England for god's sake and even when her country is about to be invaded (bringing good old Catholicism back to England I guess) she is still slapping her maid who slept with her platonic lover.
I am disappointed to see that women rated this movie higher than men. I guess anything to get most women crying over a love story! The bad guy/good queen thing was overplayed and it was funny to see the King of Spain walking in abbeys in small steps as if he's just be castrated was ridiculous.
Finally, one could see the addition of the role the Ottoman navy played in distracting the Spanish but I guess then we couldn't see the little hysterical queen going insane about her manlessness.
All said, very nicely shot and Cate Blanchett does a good job. Just a waste of a great historical story though...