A poor film

Rating: 1/10 (29 May 2007)

This is a poor film, with poor acting all round with the exception of Mirren. People will like and watch this film because of the event it centres around, and for the same inexplicable reason so many people felt her loss as if one of their own, they will stamp their ego on this movie and claim to love it. Self delusion I'm afraid, it's terrible. Diana's death illustrates the lengths people will go to in an apathetic and ideological direction-less world to feel something and unite. I believe this to be backward and insulting to countless other hard working heroes who go unsung everyday whilst helping the people of this world. This film possibly documents the UK's turning point to obsession rather than enamour with celebrity. It also documents the sad point in which Diana's mourners are not told to get it together and take stock of their own lives, but pandered to by political opportunists and a glutinous media. Ironically this film has the same air of apathy in its script and production that must have been sweeping the nation prior to the accident, for only apathy could incite the desperate and pathetic grief competition that arose after that inane night. If I seem to talk more about the event than the movie, that's because there's not much to talk about regarding the movie. It looks and feels like an 80's BBC production, no atmosphere, no sense of drama, no power, nothing.