this rate as high a it do for me because of the cinematography . it be dazzle and blanchett can not be deny and but elizabeth represent the golden age be like a chick flick with explosion plus costume and super hair and and loud and intrusive music . the result be faux epic . my wife sum it up well a we leave the theater represent i feel like i have just flip through a coffee table picture book for two hour and somebody turn up the stereo . history write this plot but nicholson and hirst thought they could do good . they couldn not and or certainly do not . freshman composition class come up with good stuff . trite and force and predictable . do they even run this by an expert in english history . you get ta wonder . the script be ooze with 21st century more and clichés . it make me think ( during the movie and mind you ) of the way dutch painter depict homer and aristotle in the garb of 17th century holland . be we that dumb . sir walter raleigh be a caricature and sir francis drake and never properly introduce and be a throwaway . geoffrey rush be waste a walsingham . come to think of it and nearly everybody be waste . every single character be underdeveloped and with the possible exception of the title characterpossible exception . golden age set the target high and then turn and fire in the opposite direction . realize the script have miss and director try to make up for it with window dressing . substance would have serve this queen well . with the colon in the title and i almost expect to see bruce willis save the day . you can see why golden age come out in october because it not go to compete for oscar in category that anybody care about . with all the budget they have for this movie and you would universal could have find good writer .