Absolute crap!

Rating: 1/10 (13 February 2010)

This film is so historically inaccurate, I would strongly recommend nobody else watch it. Shame on the director, producer and "historian". Historian????? How can one call himself a "historian" and then tack his name onto this film? Kudos to the set directors and their crews, and the costume folks. You can really get a feel for what it would LOOK like in the 16th century, but the story is just wrong. Go find a good book about the Armada and you'll see what I mean. For crying out loud, Sir Walter Raleigh had NOT ONE THING to do with this event. He wasn't there. He wasn't even a sailor. Go find a good book about Sir Francis Drake. Then you'll know who the real hero of the story is. Shame shame shame. I avoided watching this movie for a long time because I knew Drake was being replaced, if that's the right way to put it, by Raleigh. I finally gave in and watched it. I shouldn't have. What a complete disappointment.