The Queen Deserved Best Actress

Rating: 8/10 (20 November 2018)

The Queen is a perfect performance by Helen Mirren. No one could have done better, and very few could have done as well. The direction and production values of the film are impeccable, and the script is right on the money. Michael Sheen as Tony Blair is very good as well. There was not a dull moment in the entire film about the ambivalence of the royal family toward Diana. The public loved her far more than her cheating husband, Charles. And the disdain by Prince Philip and the Queen only added to the fuel against the monarchy in England. It was only through the efforts of Tony Blair and the eventual coming to her senses of Queen Elizabeth that the monarchy did not suffer further damage. This is a performance that one should not miss. How ironic that a woman who loved animals so much, actually enjoyed hunting them down and killing them as well.