Diana (2013)
Average Rating: 3.3/10
Reviews Counted: 38
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 37
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DIANA is a compelling portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales during the final two years of her life. The film stars British-born Academy Award (R) nominated actress Naomi Watts (J. EDGAR, FAIR GAME, 21 GRAMS) who assumes the leading role of the eponymous and iconic princess. Naveen Andrews, best known for his roles in THE ENGLISH PATIENT and the hit television series LOST, co-stars as Dr. Hasnat Khan. Fellow Brits Douglas Hodge, Geraldine James, Charles Edwards and Juliet Stevenson round out the
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Naomi Watts
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All Critics (38) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (37)
Why, oh why, oh why? Oh. Why?
Top CriticWatts nails the two-cans-of-hairspray helmet hair and spidery mascara. But her captain-of-the-lacrosse-team, onwards-and-upwards performance is way off the mark.
Royal with cheese.
This Princess Di biopic swerves past the pitfall of tastelessness only to risk a more perilous roadblock: dullness.
At least it's not quite as disastrous a political biopic as The Iron Lady, which is a horrendously awful portrait of an interesting, divisive individual. Dear reader, that is as faint as praise gets.
The focus on Diana becomes almost claustrophobic in its intensity
I inwardly cringed through most of this soppy film
A drippy romance, spending the vast majority of its time in private, two-hander scenes imagining inane dialogue between a dead Princess and a famously reclusive, private surgeon; it only exists because it knows neither of them is going to complain.
As big-screen romances go, this is a far cry from An Affair To Remember. It's an affair you'll probably forget on the bus trip home.
A visually glossy, dramatically limp big-screen puff piece, fashioned with bland professionalism and utterly lacking in texture or insight.
Hirschbiegel shows no signs of a cinematic heart beating in his portrayal of the self-anointed "Queen of Hearts", and rarely goes beyond made-for-television territory.
There's a clever theme to this film that's never allowed to emerge properly, as the script continually slips into romanticised melodrama.
Watts employs a number of iconic head tilts, hairdos and stick-on noses, but fights a losing battle against a film which has neither backbone nor teeth ...
Tony Blair's eulogy had more substance and I don't say that lightly.
Saddled with excruciating, toe-curlingly bad lines, Naomi Watts tries gamely in the lead but bears almost as much resemblance to Barbara Windsor as she does to Diana Windsor.
A shambolic and hugely speculative look at one of her love affairs that has more in common with a bad romcom.
Although [Watts] assiduously imitates Diana's walk and cadences, her martyred-saint sideways and upwards looks, she just never seems mad or posh or even English enough. She's too nice, too normal.
It's Naomi Watts who takes the biggest gamble here, by playing "the most famous woman in the world" - and it's a losing bet.
Too stupefyingly dull to compete with Mommie Dearest on the midnight movie circuit.
It has the slightness of a Mills & Boon novella, but treats the tale with ponderous solemnity, as though it were chronicling a meeting of minds between Mother Teresa and Abraham Lincoln. It's slow and terribly, terribly dull.
Neither as dreadful as some would claim nor as poignant as it would like to be, Diana skirts the surface of a complex figure while trying to keep all parties at bay.
Like Diana herself among the Windsors, Watts seems frighteningly isolated. She is the only performer/character for whom we give a damn ...
A special class of awful - too frivolous for offence, too epically miscalculated to add to our understanding. On the plus side, it's hysterical.
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