Helen Mirren is great even if she doesn't look like the Queen at all

Rating: 5/10 (24 October 2012)

Helen Mirren is a terrific actress and deserves all her awards. All the more so because physically she doesn't resemble the Queen at all. She is slim and Russian looking. The Queen is more plump. Their bodies looked distractingly different. But she did a captivating performance.
Good supporting actors like James Cromwell as Prince Phillip. Though the Prince Charles was a bit unlike him.
This movie isn't so much about Elizabeth II, as about her reaction to Princess Diana's death. If that is the most interesting thing in her life to make a movie about then so be it. In the end I don't really think it is such a great movie because the subject matter isn't really about the subject itself but rather a specific event that concerned another.