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Elizabeth: The Golden Age

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Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 157 Fresh: 53  Rotten:104 Average Rating: 5.1/10
 
Consensus: This sequel is full of lavish costumes and elaborate sets, but lacks the heart and creativity of the original Elizabeth
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins

Theatrical Release: Oct 12, 2007 Wide

Box Office: $16,264,475

Synopsis: Reprising the roles they originated in seven-time Academy Award®-nominated Elizabeth, Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush return for a gripping historical thriller laced with treachery and romance--The Golden Age. Joining them in the epic is Clive Owen as Sir Walter Raleigh, a dashing... Reprising the roles they originated in seven-time Academy Award®-nominated Elizabeth, Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush return for a gripping historical thriller laced with treachery and romance--The Golden Age. Joining them in the epic is Clive Owen as Sir Walter Raleigh, a dashing seafarer and newfound temptation for Elizabeth. Elizabeth: The Golden Age finds Queen Elizabeth I (Oscar®-winner Cate Blanchett) facing bloodlust for her throne and familial betrayal. Growing keenly aware of the changing religious and political tides of late 16th century Europe, Elizabeth finds her rule openly challenged by the Spanish King Philip II (Jordi Molla)--with his powerful army and sea-dominating armada--determined to restore England to Catholicism. Preparing to go to war to defend her empire, Elizabeth struggles to balance ancient royal duties with an unexpected vulnerability in her love for Raleigh. But he remains forbidden for a queen who has sworn body and soul to her country. Unable and unwilling to pursue her love, Elizabeth encourages her favorite lady-in-waiting, Bess (Abbie Cornish), to befriend Raleigh to keep him near. But this strategy forces Elizabeth to observe their growing intimacy. As she charts her course abroad, her trusted advisor, Sir Francis Walsingham (Academy Award® winner Geoffrey Rush), continues his masterful puppetry of Elizabeth's court at home--and her campaign to solidify absolute power. Through an intricate spy network, Walsingham uncovers an assassination plot that could topple the throne. But as he unmasks traitors that may include Elizabeth's own cousin Mary Stuart (Samantha Morton), he unknowingly sets England up for destruction. Elizabeth: The Golden Age tells the thrilling tale of an era...the story of one woman's crusade to control love, crush enemies and secure her position as a beloved icon of the western world. --© Universal Pictures [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Clive Owen, Rhys Ifans, Samantha Morton

Director: Shekhar Kapur
Screenwriter: William Nicholson, Michael Hirst
Producer: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Jonathan Cavendish
Composer: Craig Armstrong, A.R. Rahman

DVD Info

Release:

Feb 5, 2008

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Snap Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English, French, Spanish
  • Subtitles - English (SDH), French, Spanish - Optional

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary - Shekhar Kapur - Director
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Featurette - 1. THE REIGN CONTINUES: Making ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE
  • 2. INSIDE ELIZABETH'S WORLD
  • 3. COMMANDING THE WINDS: CREATING THE ARMADA
  • 4. TOWERS, COURTS AND CATHEDRALS

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2/5

As dumb as history gets.

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05/24/08
Chris Laverty
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2/5

But saddled with this dopey script, [Blanchett] is stuck pulling a series of poses and wearing one ornate gown after another.

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05/01/08
Alonso Duralde
MSNBC
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2.5/4

Blanchett is again director Shekhar Kapur's greatest asset. His weakness is his tendency to fall back on silly, melodramatic contrivance better suited to popcorn fare than to a believable meditation on Elizabethan England.

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04/10/08
Rossiter Drake
San Francisco Examiner
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B+

Betrayal, war, love triangles and most importantly, Cate Blanchett proves to be able to capture strength, anger and sadness better...

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03/03/08
Jeff Bayer
Daily Herald (IL)
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6/10

This is an epic, to be sure, but it is also a melodrama, a soap opera of titanic scale and bluster.

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02/28/08
Brandon Fibbs
Colorado Springs Gazette
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1/5

Figurinos, direção de arte e fotografia são exuberantes, mas fica até difícil apreciar a performance de Cate Blanchett em meio a um roteiro tão estúpido e à direção "olhem-pra-mim-sou-Cecil-B.-DeMille!" de Shekhar Kapur.

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02/18/08
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena
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2/5

Menos interesante y más rutinaria que la primera Elizabeth (de 1998), esta segunda parte vale la pena más que nada por otra brillante composición de Cate Blanchett.

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01/25/08
Enrique Buchichio
Uruguay Total
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2/5

a muddle that subsumes [its] premise in a mighty attempt to be several things all at once, with an uneven delivery

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12/24/07
Andrea Chase
Killer Movie Reviews
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2.5/4

... fearsome and passionate with its visual flair, but incredibly confused as to how it wants to address Elizabeth's life beyond what has already been realized.

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12/07/07
David Keyes
Cinemaphile.org
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4/5

"Elizabeth: The Golden Age" is a worthy sequel to "Elizabeth". Cate Blanchett delivers the same performance that earned her so much praise the first time around. The epic feel harkens back to Hollywood's Golden Age.

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11/19/07
Roger Tennis
Cinemaclips.com
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Blanchett and the film powerfully embody the range of Elizabeth's mind and the force of her intellect, along with the necessary balance between moral scruple and realpolitik.

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11/17/07
Philip French
Observer [UK]
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11/16/07
Sydney Morning Herald
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2/4

The elaborate costumes and set decoration provide the only interest.

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11/09/07
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
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It may have been a gamble for director Shekhar Kapur to pick up the threads of his acclaimed film Elizabeth from nine years earlier but the result is overtly satisfying

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11/09/07
Urban Cinefile Critics
Urban Cinefile
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2/4

Unreliable as history and misguided as a contemporary allegory, Golden Age finally fails because it is a half-hearted spectacle, not even filmed in a widescreen format.

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11/07/07
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
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Cate Blanchett's workaholic Queen Liz too busy for boy toys, in this royal runway strut more about fashion statements than political statements.

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11/05/07
Prairie Miller
NewsBlaze
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3/5

Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth sequel is a beautifully shot, impeccably designed and largely entertaining drama, providing you're not a stickler for historical accuracy.

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11/02/07
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon
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4/5

If this is a film that irritates nearly as much as it pleases, we do get a sense of the times, and of the lady in question. The eyes, if not the brain, are certainly given a workout that they will remember.

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11/02/07
Derek Malcolm
This is London
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3/5

See it anyway for Blanchett's soulful modulation between queenly command and womanly anguish.

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11/02/07
Anthony Quinn
Independent
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The pity of this botched follow-up is that it never once touches us.

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11/02/07
Sukhdev Sandhu
Daily Telegraph
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