content: I did not like this film at all. I think it is useless to comment about its hostorical incorrectness: the preceding reviews have been really exaustive. What I would like to talk about is the film's atmosphere. Too dark. Renaissance times were not so gloomy. esides, the movie bears no trace of the literary outburts that England knew under Elizabeth. Were was Philip Sydney? Were was Sir Walter Raleigh? It completely skipped Elizabeth's interest in the New World: no trace of Francis Drake or Humphrey Gilbert. Finally, there wasn't even the slightest hint to Mary Stuart. The film director has made a really messy job with his material. Elizabeth's qualities as one of the greatest monacrhs in history just are not there. Watching the movie one gets the idea that her only problem in life was marriage, which is not true. A bad film, in spite of costumes and good performers.