{movie} elizabeth: the golden age (2007)

Reprising her Oscar-nominated role from 1998's Elizabeth, Cate Blanchett is once again at the head of the cast as the Virgin Queen (earning her another Oscar nod) in this Shekhar Kapur-directed sequel to that film. Focusing on the queen's tempestuous relationship with the adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh, the film also stars Clive Owen (as Raleigh), Geoffrey Rush (as Sir Francis Walsingham) and Samantha Morton (as Mary, Queen of Scots).

ireviewnetflix.com rating: *** The sets and costumes are amazing, but something seems to be missing from this one that made the first Elizabeth film feel so special. Still very well done where production is concerned, but something in the story feels lacking.