Elizabeth

Daniel Roque

Perhaps it's just Cate Blanchett's incredible acting, but Elizabeth was quite a peculiar funny queen. The supporting cast is full of scenestealers: from Daniel Craig attempt to play a priest James Bond, to Vincent Cassel's comic relief moments... even a young Lily Allen makes a cameo!

Richmond Hill

Rip roaring, flesh tearing, rollicking revisionism played out as revenge drama and virign birth. Great fun if taken as full blooded tosh.

ig_____or

Seeing a queen playing another queen makes for good entertainment but this film needed some spicing-up on top of those sets, clothes and hair-do's. Also, Joseph Fiennes... how boring.

Dzimas

I thought it was kind of funny that Joe Fiennes played in both Elizabeth and Shakespeare in Love. Unfortunately, he's not much of an actor. But, yes, Blanchett was glorious as QE!

J.J. 'Jake' Gittes

Yes. Yes. She became QEEN. Unexpected. Unforeseen. And everybody thought, she is a piece of cake. But, not a all. With her wisdom, her intelligence, her brain & her beauty, she managed it all. Cate Blanchett, what a drama queen, with all her senses and capabilities, she brought this to highest levels. Masterpiece.

squid

Blanchett and Eccleston are charismatic, everything is pretty but it doesn't save this movie from being totally uninteresting. What was these parts with the grotesque, vulgar and perverse french ? It felt like watching a big farce. If it's not even trying to be historically accurate what is the point ?

spiderliliez

Surprisingly, despite the year it was made, and the very 90s cinematic display, this seem so much better than its sequel (Elizabeth: The Golden Age), yet they are independently essential to each other. Cate Blanchett's portrayal of the younger queen seem to have truly captured how Elizabeth is like from the history books. Cate's presence you can say, is what drives this movie.

Scotch

Kind of tedious if not for Cate Blanchett. Who knew the Elizabethan era could feel so 90's. If only it ended with a song and dance with the buzz-cut Queen Lizzie singing "Like a Virgin" while applying her pasty white make-up and frizzy orange weave.