Historical mess but entertaining

Rating: 8/10 (3 November 2019)

If you love Game of Thrones and you are the kind of person who proudly says that historical movies are movies, man, not documentaries, you are going to love this.
If you know about the period and about shakespeare you are going to cringe. It may bother you so much you won't enjoy the film, and the film is enetertaining and well made. It's possible too that you are able to suspend your belief and just take it as it is. Up to you.
I would have preferred if the king was a fantasy one, maybe a King of the north, and the Dauphin the heir of the throne of westeros or something. I understand that to make a film you need to tweak timelines and sometimes merge characters or make up ones but this is re writing history to suit the sensibilities of the present time, and that feels a little dishonest to me.
At least there was no anachronistic gender fluidity.
It's a very good film nevertheless, I enjoyed it.