Another historical fiction on Henry V111 & his Loves.

Rating: 7/10 (27 June 2008)

This movie is based on a novel & like many novels about the Tudor's & a current cable TV series it is pure fiction.
Now this time period has fascinated me since I was a small child in the 1930's & saw a few films on this period of time; being a nosy young lad I asked my father about certain facts, He being a wonderful father, advised me to go to the library & look it up. (found out much later he did not know the answers to my questions---------- I am real glad now as I became a history buff)
When I am through writing this review I shall go to the encyclopedia & look up a few of the characters & find some of the truth.
I do not go to see films for its accuracy to details, I go to be entertained.. This film was about 90% inaccurate, I did not expect more. The acting by Eric Bana,Natalie Portman & Scarlett Johannsen as Henry V111, Anne Bolwyn & her sister Anne, is good all the other performers are good as well; so are the production values.
What this needed was stronger director, than newcomer,Justin Chadwick.
Non-the-less the film still was entertaining,this seemed to be made in the old-fashioned way,with a minimum of violence.
Ratings: *** (Out of 4) 83 points (out of 100) IMDb 7 (out of 10)