Elizabeth

ELIZABETH (1998) - July 18, 2007
Not so good. About the first few years of Queen Elizabeth's reign, this was a very well acted but otherwise unspectacular film. One of the film's main problems is that it just isn't very well directed. Shekhar Kapur's ceaselessly moving camera reminded me of Michael Bay. And the murky, drab cinematography insured that the film was pretty much always dull to look at. One of the film's better moments, in which there is a montage of Elizabeth's various enemies being dispatched, was lifted shamelessly from the Godfather. The film itself was never altogether boring, though I can't say I was ever really entertained, either. **