This film is appalingly bad. historically inaccurate with some ridiculous scenes. If you watch it expecting it to be interesting or informative you will be highly disappointed. But the fact that it was so bad made it really funny. The king of spain and 'titanic' scene were my favourites!

It was with much anticipation I sat down to watch TGA but the mishmash of a plot and historical inaccuracies left me hugely disappointed.

A soon as Mary Queen of Scots spoke with a north east Scottish accent and not a French accent the game was up. I suspect this was done so American audiences would not get confused.

And what ever happened to Sir Francis Drake? It would be like the story of American independence with George Washington as a bit part player.

Could and should have been so much better.

Where indeed was Sir Frances Drake, he was supposed to be a key part in the defeat of the Armada! I was waiting for him to appear but he never did and also there needed to be a bit more fighting in the battle at the end, im glad the horses were alright but Walter did not defeat the Armada on his own! There were a few other facts they took out too!
It was good to have the eye candy of Clive Owen though (I love him) and as usual Cate Blanchett was fabulous! That speech about 'I too can command the wind Sir, I have a hurricane in me that will strip Spain bare if u dare to try me!' WOW! That was an emotionally driven moment!
I think it was Jonathan Ross who said something like, in this film, "it was like they got their historical facts from Wikipedia" hehe!