Synopsis
When Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by ruthless familial betrayal and Spain's invading army, she and her shrewd adviser must act to safeguard the lives of her people.
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Cast
- Cate BlanchettElizabeth I, Queen of England
- Clive OwenSir Walter Raleigh
- Geoffrey RushSir Francis Walsingham
- Laurence FoxSir Christopher Hatton
- Tom HollanderAmyas Paulet
- Abbie CornishElizabeth Throckmorton
- Rhys IfansRobert Reston
- Jordi MollàKing Philip II of Spain
- Samantha MortonMary, Queen of Scots
- Eddie RedmayneAnthony Babington
Recommendations
- 63
ReelViews
Elizabeth: The Golden Age lacks the intricate plotting that characterized its predecessor. The screenplay is more action-oriented but not as smart, and some of the dialogue is downright cheesy. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
Too bad Kapur's new, glittering sequel also shows up feeling prematurely old, square, and cautious. A production of exquisitely complicated wigs and expensively grand wide shots, it pauses often to admire its own beauty, leery of messing with previous success. - 58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Favors pageantry over substance. - 50
Rolling Stone
Cate Blanchett can do anything, even play Bob Dylan, but she can't save this creaky sequel to her star-making 1998 biopic of Elizabeth I. - 50
Austin Chronicle
Despite good performances all around, particularly the ever-brilliant Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age is a gilded ornament, speculative and uninterested in much besides this queen's matters of heart. - 42
Christian Science Monitor
Blanchett miraculously gives a good performance, even when saddled with lines like this one, to Clive Owen's Sir Walter Raleigh: "In another world, could you have loved me?" - 40
New York Magazine (Vulture)
An unholy mixture of the banal and the bombastic. - 40
Variety
Without the pleasure of watching Cate Blanchett continue the role that launched her to stardom, there would be little to recommend this latest of many cinematic and television accounts of the celebrated monarch's life.
