Overrated is a kind critique

Rating: 4/10 (24 April 2019)

This is perhaps the most overrated movie in the past year. So what if the actors are good? The entire story is about a physically diseased and mentally incompetent English queen who can't muster enough sense, or put into place effective palace intrigue, to know who to trust and who to believe in her own household. A movie that simply grinds on in depicting a historical figure as so pathetic is hardly great cinema, and what's worse is that even the storytellers here, meaning the script writers and the director, have no sense of direction or moral compass regarding any of the scripted characters. At the end of this movie, either you'll be stuck in the stunning cinematography, costumes and consummate acting, or stuck with the sensibility that those aspects meant nothing and only dressed up a very vapid and soulless trudge-through-the-mud movie.