I was not impressed...

Rating: 5/10 (2 March 2009)

I don't know. I was not as awed by this film as most of the critics where. Not that there is anything essentially wrong with it, but I simply did not find it to be anything special. Except for most of the acting performances. Not only Hellen Mirren who won the Oscar, but also Michael Sheen as a very believable Tony Blair, James Cromwell as Prince Philip and Alex Jennings as Prince Charles (in spite of almost no physical resemblance to the real Prince Charles). Other than these performances, I found nothing compelling about the film, there was nothing there that we didn't know already simply by having watched the news during those days in 1997.
Maybe I expected too much, maybe I am just being difficult, but I was not impressed, not at all.
P.S. One day after watching 'The Queen' I saw 'Spanglish'. What a difference! It was absolutely clear to me then how overblown 'The Queen' actually was by the media, the critics and the publicity. 'Spanglish', an almost completely anonymous film is vastly superior in almost all aspects that supposedly make 'The Queen' such a great movie, namely characterization and dialog. There is no comparison!