Disappointing

Rating: Null/10 (17 March 2007)

I saw this recently after all the hype and was disappointed. This seems to have been made for the US market perhaps the Oscars were in mind before it was in production. To say that artistic licence was used would be something of an understatement and the characters for the most part came over as wooden and one dimensional. The Queen mother was shown as a common gin swilling old sot, the Prince Philip character could have come straight out of 'Allo 'Allo Tony Blair impersonation was fair and Helen Mirren was good as the Queen. Camera work reminded me of a home movie at times and you would think they could get some facts right for instance it has been common knowledge for several decades that the Queen doesn't share her bed with Phil the Greek, is it likely that the Queen would drive anywhere without her protection squad observing? The Queen would not have made such a base error as referring to the Union Flag as the Union Jack This is just soap opera dressed up as history with speculation and minus facts