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Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

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Average Rating: 5.1/10
Reviews Counted: 164
Fresh: 58 | Rotten: 106

This sequel is full of lavish costumes and elaborate sets, but lacks the heart and creativity of the original Elizabeth

Average Rating: 5/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 28

This sequel is full of lavish costumes and elaborate sets, but lacks the heart and creativity of the original Elizabeth

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Actress Cate Blanchett returns to her Oscar-nominated role and director Shekhar Kapur steps back into the director's chair for this belated sequel to the critically acclaimed 1998 biopic Elizabeth that explores the 16th century romance between the "Virgin Queen" and noted adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen). Michael Hirst teams with William Nicholson to pen the screenplay, and actor Geoffrey Rush returns to the role of Sir Francis Walsingham. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

PG-13, 1 hr. 55 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Drama

Directed By: Shekhar Kapur

Written By: William Nicholson, Michael Hirst

In Theaters: Oct 12, 2007 Wide

On DVD: Feb 5, 2008

Box Office:$16.3M

Universal Pictures

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Cast

Cate Blanchett
Queen Elizabeth I
Geoffrey Rush
Sir Francis Walsingham
Clive Owen
Sir Walter Raleigh
Rhys Ifans
Robert Reston
Jordi Molla
King Philip II of Spain
Abbie Cornish
Bess Throckmorton
Samantha Morton
Mary Stuart
Tom Hollander
Sir Amyas Paulet
Antony Carrick
Spanish Archbishop
David Threlfall
Dr. John Dee
Eddie Redmayne
Thomas Babington
John Shrapnel
Lord Howard
Laurence Fox
Sir Christopher Hatton
Adrian Scarborough
Calley
Steven Robertson
Francis Throckmorton
Tim Preece
Sam Spruell

Critic Reviews for Elizabeth: The Golden Age

All Critics (169) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (58) | Rotten (111) | DVD (16)

This is romantic fantasy, not history, and much of the time you fully expect Kapur, here making his third post-Bollywood feature, to turn his cast loose in song and dance.

October 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Film.com

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Jonathan F. Richards

Film.com

Top Critic

Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth: The Golden Age, from a screenplay by William Nicholson and Michael Hirst, turned out to be more rousingly entertaining than many of its less-than-lukewarm reviews had led me to anticipate.

October 17, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Observer

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Andrew Sarris

New York Observer

Top Critic

I can almost recommend this film as a great-looking, bombastic guilty pleasure. But the soundtrack is unbearable, the soap opera love triangle -- laughable.

October 15, 2007 Comment

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

Bogus history can make a crackling good adventure yarn, and Kapur piles on the treachery and romance.

October 12, 2007 Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Colin Covert

Minneapolis Star Tribune

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From its extravagant costumes to its pompous score, The Golden Age is packed with distractions. But the biggest of all is the story itself, which works so mightily to tarnish the queen at its core.

October 12, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Daily News

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Elizabeth Weitzman

New York Daily News

Top Critic

Expect a fast-paced, beautifully mounted and well-acted soap opera with overripe dialogue that plays fast and loose with history -- just like they did in the '30s, '40s and '50s -- and you won't come away disappointed.

October 12, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Post

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Lou Lumenick

New York Post

Top Critic

As an historical reenactment it suffers from a great deal of simplification in order to make complex events quickly and easily understandable, and as a drama it suffers from a great deal of build that never really pays on it's promise.

March 21, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net

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Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

Calamitous

August 27, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

odaje sve nedostatke i ograni%u010Denja olovnih vremena u kojima je nastao

July 15, 2009 Full Review Source: Index.hr

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Dragan Antulov

Index.hr

Every shot, every costume is decadent with color, and every single twitch of Blanchett's face is imbued with meaning as she negotiates her way through her warring roles of being a woman and being a queen.

August 23, 2008 Full Review Source: ReelzChannel.com

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Heather Huntington

ReelzChannel.com Source: ReelzChannel.com

Talky, arty, intense sequel may not interest kids.

July 9, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Cynthia Fuchs

Common Sense Media

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

May 1, 2008 Full Review Source: MSNBC

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Alonso Duralde

MSNBC

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.

April 10, 2008 Comment

Rossiter Drake

San Francisco Examiner

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

March 3, 2008 Full Review Source: The Scorecard Review

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Jeff Bayer

The Scorecard Review

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

February 28, 2008 Full Review Source: Colorado Springs Gazette

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Brandon Fibbs

Colorado Springs Gazette

A pedigreed romance, an excuse for Blanchett to bind herself in satin and channel Kate Hepburn.

February 21, 2008 Full Review Source: I.E. Weekly

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Amy Nicholson

I.E. Weekly

Figurinos, dire��o de arte e fotografia s�o exuberantes, mas fica at� dif�cil apreciar a performance de Cate Blanchett em meio a um roteiro t�o est�pido e � dire��o "olhem-pra-mim-sou-Cecil-B.-DeMille!" de Shekhar Kapur.

February 18, 2008 Comment

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

You find yourself more enticed by the costumes, odd facial hair configurations, and crazy wigs more than anything else.

February 12, 2008 Full Review Source: Bronsonfive

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Michael Ferraro

Bronsonfive Source: Bronsonfive

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Phenomenal sequel to Elizabeth, Cate Blanchett delivers a stunning performance in the title role. Though the film has gotten some flack for its romantic storyline, it's also part of history. I thought that this film was just as strong as the first, and that Blanchett delivered yet again. The film is a great looking

October 28, 2011

Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

Super Reviewer

This is the sequel to the film that made Cate Blanchett's career, and, while it does have it's moments, it doesn't quite live up to the level set by its predecessor. The story this time out focuses on a few things: the schemings of Mary Queen of Scots, the campaign against the Spanish Armada, and a possible romance

November 1, 2010

Chris Weber

Super Reviewer

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