Hype over substance

Rating: 4/10 (12 January 2019)

A disappointing film, I honestly cannot see what everybody's is banging on about.
Seemingly filmed on security cameras with wide angled lenses which distorted the vision, cut with on obtuse period of a single piano key alternating a beat with a rusty saw being played with a violin bow, this fastly became the most uncomfortable film I have ever had to endure. I noticed that I was physically furrowing my brow in subconscious distain for the filming. Which spent too long in the beginning jumping around between the characters for you to comfortably establish any sense of direction.
Nothing original in the script, typical follies of the period, a little jealousy and skullduggery between rising factions of the established order and the new. The film seemed to make its entire story based on those simple concepts that are usually an overplayed stereotype in all royal household films...pick any, it's there...how this became such a phenomena eludes me entirely. Olivia Coleman, whome I love, was wonderful, but her character which was a version of blackadders queen Elizabeth but with a weaker temperament and vulnerability.
It seems that when we brits make a period drama, which is nothing more than a film for tv, some forces come into play which destine all concerned for globes, oscars and awards that are totally undeserved. It just proves the sewn up, hypocrisy and old boy network that these awards really are.. they need scraping and replacing with genuine, unprogramed awards for invocation, creativity and delivery...not yet another rehash of a period drama, or holocuast cliche that seem to be guaranteed award candidates by the mere fact of making them.