Wow, what a disappointment.

Rating: 5/10 (1 May 2007)

Oh, my...where to start? Beautiful scenery and good use of actual footage. But, honestly, I watched the entire thing twice, including extras, and kept waiting for the award-wining movie. Helen Mirren playing an emotionally inhibited, superior British woman. Same tired blah, blah, blah about the royals not liking Diana and vice versa. Same message about the royals being out of touch with contemporary sensibilities (no! really?). Same guesswork about what the daily life of the family looks like. I suppose royalty fans will like it.
Now, what might be meaningful is if, 50-ish years from now, the royals are gone and someone, some day, wonders why they were eased out. This movie would give them a clue. There were no sympathetic portrayals here.