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Cate Blanchett rules again this fall. (File 1998) * The most interesting part of the movie is watching Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth transform from this innocent kid out in the country into a ruthless monarch willing to do whatever it takes to dispense with her enemies. Very Godfather of her the way she takes care of business in one big haul. I half expected her main nemisis -- Norfolk -- to get it in the barber's chair. Anyway, I wonder now that the Elizabeth character has evolved, how will the new movie ratchet up the drama? * You probably thought nothing of it in 1998, but that's Daniel Craig playing the murdering priest sent by the Vatican to fix things up in England. He doesn't look very James Bond wearing his brown monk's getup, but he shows that he was capable of playing cold-blooded killers even back then. * If Geoffrey Rush is in a movie, it's probably going to be good. He was still a relative newcomer back in 1998, and Elizabeth was one of his first major roles coming off of his best actor Oscar for Shine. And since then, he has gone on to make Shakespeare in Love the same year, the excellent Quills, Frida, all three Pirates of the Caribbean movies (OK, only the first one of those was good, but everyone's got to make a paycheck at some point), and Munich. And he'll be back for The Golden Age, which gives me a good feeling about its prospects. |
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