Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
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: 42
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 31
This sequel is full of lavish costumes and elaborate sets, but lacks the heart and creativity of the original Elizabeth
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Movie Info
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
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Cast
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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 -
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Making soap of statecraft, the film has plenty of juicy moments, but offers an inconsistent rather than complex view of Elizabeth.
Top CriticThis 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.
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.
I can almost recommend this film as a great-looking, bombastic guilty pleasure. But the soundtrack is unbearable, the soap opera love triangle -- laughable.
Despite its title, Shekhar Kapur's new film resembles tarnished copper.
Bogus history can make a crackling good adventure yarn, and Kapur piles on the treachery and romance.
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.
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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.
But saddled with this dopey script, [Blanchett] is stuck pulling a series of poses and wearing one ornate gown after another.
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.
Betrayal, war, love triangles and most importantly, Cate Blanchett proves to be able to capture strength, anger and sadness better...
This is an epic, to be sure, but it is also a melodrama, a soap opera of titanic scale and bluster.
A pedigreed romance, an excuse for Blanchett to bind herself in satin and channel Kate Hepburn.
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.
A sequel, a costume fantasy, a romantic melodrama, a CGI war spectacular, a puzzling celebration of beauty over substance.
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.
a muddle that subsumes [its] premise in a mighty attempt to be several things all at once, with an uneven delivery
... 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.
"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.
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.
The elaborate costumes and set decoration provide the only interest.
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
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.
Cate Blanchett's workaholic Queen Liz too busy for boy toys, in this royal runway strut more about fashion statements than political statements.
Audience Reviews for Elizabeth: The Golden Age
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- King Philip II of Spain: Elizabeth is darkness, I am the light.
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- Francis Throckmorton: You cannot save England now.. the Enterprise has begun.
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- Queen Elizabeth I: I've become almost enthusiastic.
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- Sir Amyas Paulet: The Queen orders these measures for your protection.
- Mary Stuart: The Queen? I am a Queen.
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- Queen Elizabeth I: My loving people! We see the sails of the enemy approaching. We hear the Spanish guns over the water. Soon now, we will meet them, face to face. I am resolved in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all! While we stand together no invader shall pass! Let them come with the armies of hell, they will not pass! And when this day of battle is ended, we meet again in heaven... or on the field of victory.
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- Sir Walter Raleigh: I've just returned from the New World majesty. I have claimed the fertile coast in your name and called it.. Virginia, in honour of our Virgin Queen.
- Queen Elizabeth I: Virginia? And when I marry will change the name to conjugia?
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Foreign Titles
- Elizabeth - Das goldene Königreich (DE)
- Elizabeth - L'âge d'or (FR)
