Insightful movie...if you're in the 5th grade....

Rating: 1/10 (9 February 2012)

Was this movie written on a 5th grade level? I gave it about 20 minutes and just had to turn it off. The characters are one-dimensional and speak like fumbling adolescents. The script reads like a freshman's really bad film school project. I was not quite convinced that Tony Blair would not know how to behave when presenting himself to the Queen, or that the Queen would be so flat in dealing with Diana's death. It's like a bad British attempt at a fluffy American movie. One redeeming attribute is actual footage that's interwoven into the film, that was taken as the public's reaction to Diana's death -- but, ironically, that attribute just makes the scripted scenes seem all the more flat and contrived. Well, at least they still say ma'am over there.