Better than Golden Girls.

Rating: 7/10 (5 June 2008)

With movies that are supposed to capture historic events, you never know what you are going to get. Sometimes you get movies like Saving Privte Ryan that entertain all audiences. And sometimes you get films like 300 that are over-bloated, over-dramatized, and way over-fictionalized that entertain some but not all.
And then there is this - a movie that is fairly accurate and has nice acting. This is a movie that plays into the British arena of drama and history. While the story is good, the direction is OK. There simply wasn't enough of the defeat of the Spanish Armada and their French allies to entertain all.
And while I did enjoy the rest of it, I still wanted that. If there is more on the fighting, then this film becomes a masterpiece. Instead, it receives a ho hum reception. So overall, its nicely done but well short of perfection. "B"