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(1 - 38) of 38 OFCS Rating: 24% Rotten Page   1   2.5/5 "Playing fast and loose with the facts, and generating little big picture meaning, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, stands as a series of individual court intrigues that fail to add up to any great epiphany."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron "An Elizabethan-era version of the madcap energy, penny-novel intrigue and intentional historical inaccuracies of Baz Luhrman's Moulin Rouge!."   european-films.net   Boyd van Hoeij B+ "Golden Age rides off the rails, taking the legend of Elizabeth to the next level of mythology. Frankly, the acceleration is bliss."   DVDTalk.com   Brian Orndorf C "Here, the Golden Age is converted to pewter."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "Raleigh embodies England's drive to explore, to conquer, to make commerce%u2014to "build," as he puts it."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 3/5 "It's hard to enjoy all that naval carnage when the people on the ships are just as wooden as the planks."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger 2.5/4 "... 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."   Cinemaphile.org   David Keyes C+ "Spectacle, costumes, wigs and an inaccurate history lesson rules the day."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 4/10 "odaje sve nedostatke i ograni%u010Denja olovnih vremena u kojima je nastao"   Index.hr   Dragan Antulov 1.5/4 "The way Elizabeth: The Golden Age tells it, the Spanish Armada's defeat by the British Empire was the orgasm The Virgin Queen never had."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez 2/5 "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."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio C+ "Simply takes a chunk out of Elizabeth's life and says, 'Here's what happened during these years,' without bothering to shape it into a story."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider "Calamitous"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce C "Stilted and juvenile, more Classics Illustrated than classic....the dialogue is pocked with banalities and howlers."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "A sequel in which the Virgin Queen struggles to hold on to power in a time of great religious violence and personal challenges."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2.5/4 "With respect to costumes and set design, this is a sumptuous affair. The script is less even, as is the pacing."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 6/10 "Click here to read review"   vj.net.ua   Jaroslav Vishtaljuk 6/10 "Reasonably entertaining show of flourishes, colors, strong emotions, some intrigue, and heightened moments of drama ... around a weak center."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen "This 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."   Film.com   Jonathan F. Richards 4.5/5 "Elizabeth I: II: Liz Harder is an enjoyable sequel which does not this time require you to have done your homework."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery "An extended game of 16th-century Barbie."   House Next Door   Keith Uhlich 2.5/5 "an overblown costumer drama that is desperately clutching at the Oscar statuett"   Film School Rejects   Kevin Carr C "Sexual politics dominate The Golden Age, rendering the middle-aged Elizabeth more love sick adolescent than conquering warrior in this borderline bodice ripper."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2/4 "History gets short shrift from screenwriters William Nicholson and Michael Hirst -- starting with the not insignificant fact that in 1585 Elizabeth was 52 years old -- but Kapur is clearly more interested in spectacle and soap opera than dusty old facts."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 2.5/4 "More pageant drama than historical speculation."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik "Torture! Intrigue! Sex! Treachery! Holy war! Cate Blanchett in royal drag! Clive Owen in pirate drag! We are highly amused."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/4 "Cate the Great once again imbues the Queen with her captivating mix of steely strength, regal dignity, take-no-crap toughness, and intimate vulnerability."   TheMovieReport.com   Michael Dequina 2/5 "Kapur also demonstrates he has no knack for shooting fight scenes, meaning the boffo climax looks less like epic warfare and more like Shark Attack 3."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 1/5 "It is such a botch that it is difficult to believe that any of those involved with its production actually saw the original "Elizabeth," let alone helped make it."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 3.5/5 "Emphasises the costumes, hair and sets over historical accuracy and depth of character. But it's still hugely entertaining."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline C- "A failure on most any appreciable level: as compelling drama, as a history lesson, as a showcase for Blanchett's unparalleled talents... even as a sequel."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux C+ "... the intrigue that made the original Elizabeth so gripping is simply an awkward complication here, emphasis on the awkward."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 2.5/5 "the most ornate episode of Saved by the Bell you'll ever see."   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell F "A lurid sort of Christopher Hitchens vision of history pervades Elizabeth: The Golden Age … How is it possible that this orgy of anti-Catholicism has been all but ignored by critics?"   Decent Films Guide   Steven D. Greydanus 6/10 "A historical costume drama - with far more emphasis on the 'costume' than the 'drama.' And there's no excuse for such a deafening score!"   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 3/10 "There are movies that are so bad they're good, and then there are movies that are so bad they're completely awesome."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 0.5/4 "Just f******* retarded."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 38) of 38 OFCS Rating: 24% Rotten Page   1