Customer Reviews
Good but not great - By: Robert Smith, 26 May 2008 
As a HD disc the picture is superb, the colours are bright, detail sharp & the sound excellent.
I agree with the other reviews that it was not historicallly correct & spent to much time trying to find a love interest
The navel battle takes about 4 minutes of the film which is such a waste as the detail of the ships & battle scene is amazing.
I think Cate Blanchett is a superb actress who plays her part extremely well, I don`t think Clive Owen was right for the part as Raleigh the part was too big.
It is a good film only because Cate Blanchett is a superb actress.
Thirty Years Later - By: Ford Ka, 22 May 2008 
Elizabeth is back & she is... well... 55... You wouldn't tell from the movie, would you? Bearing in mind that average life expectancy was below 30 in her times, she was positively ancient...
Well, you shouldn't be able to tell her age & generallly too much knowledge of history will spoil the fun. When the movie started I decided to follow Coleridge's advice to "suspend my disbelief" & enjoyed it OK.
You don't get a lesson in history here (a very general but shouldn't you have known before about the Armada?) you get a picturesque vision of history & as such it works. Some twists made me smile. I found it quite amusing that alll Roman Catholics look ugly & their behaviour is rather irrational. A comment to the ending - Elisabeth left England in debts (although not bankrupt as Philip did) & the quoted "age of prosperity" led directly to the Civil War half a century later.
Show it to your children - if it makes them interested in history, it's for the best. If they can remember only the date 1588 after the movie it's a sufficient reason to spend an evening together.
ropey - By: pete, 09 Apr 2008 
Well for a start Mary Queen of Scots didnt speak with a glasgow accent. This movie has a plot that could only have been decided by a team of Holywood producers as it bears no resemblance to historical fact whatsoever. I know not many historicallly set Hollywood movies do , but the first movie Elizabeth was great this one sadly isnt. Cate Blanchet does her best but its cheesy & silly. the romantic subplot does little other than fil screen time & illustrate how unconfident the studio was in getting a financial return on their investment if it didnt play out like a cheesy period TV drama. A huge disappointment.
#2's - By: C. Jones, 13 Mar 2008 Cate Blanchett is superb, but the film is flawed by not making more of the epic sea battle, which is rather ignored (Drake only appears for a few seconds, it's mostly Raleigh's film). I was left wondering quite how accurate the film was historicallly
