
Two faiths, two empires, two rulers - colliding in 1588. Papist Spain wants to bring down the heretic Elizabeth. Philip is building an armada but needs a rationale to attack. With covert intrigue, Spain sets a trap for the Queen and her principal secretary, Walsingham, using as a pawn Elizabeth's cousin Mary Stuart, who's under house arrest in the North. The trap springs, and the armada sets sail, to rendezvous with French ground forces and to attack. During these months, the... (Full plot summary below)
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Two faiths, two empires, two rulers - colliding in 1588. Papist Spain wants to bring down the heretic Elizabeth. Philip is building an armada but needs a rationale to attack. With covert intrigue, Spain sets a trap for the Queen and her principal secretary, Walsingham, using as a pawn Elizabeth's cousin Mary Stuart, who's under house arrest in the North. The trap springs, and the armada sets sail, to rendezvous with French ground forces and to attack. During these months, the Virgin Queen falls in love with Walter Raleigh, keeping him close to court and away from the sea and America. Is treachery or heroism at his heart? Does loneliness await her passionate majesty?
Leave your thoughts about Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenBombastic music and lavish costumes cannot disguise the film's coming across as a ho-hum high-school lesson in historical fiction. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip MartinTaken in the proper spirit ... pleasant enough |
| CinerinaKarina MontgomeryElizabeth I: II: Liz Harder is an enjoyable sequel which does not this time require you to have done your homework. |
| Milwaukee Journal SentinelDuane Dudek[Director] Kapur is like an American Idol contestant who mistakes a song for its high and low extremes. |
| Nick's Flick PicksNick DavisElizabeth: Full Throttle. Elizabeth: The Heretic. Elizabeth: Book of Shadows. Despite all the peacock kerfluffery Kapur can conjure, this remains an inscrutable film, in intent as well as execution. |
| New York PostLou LumenickExpect 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. |
| San Francisco ChronicleRuthe SteinAn enticingly risque saga of the 16th century monarch. |
| ReelzChannel.comHeather HuntingtonEvery 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. |
| San Francisco ExaminerRossiter DrakeBlanchett 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. |
| I.E. WeeklyAmy NicholsonA pedigreed romance, an excuse for Blanchett to bind herself in satin and channel Kate Hepburn. |