Queen Mary has her half sister, Elizabeth (Kate Blanchett) thrown in to the dungeon tower for treason. By the way, it looks as though Kate Blanchett has not aged one bit today since 1998. In actuality it was because Elizabeth is a protestant & the heiress to the England throne. Queen Mary makes life difficult for Elizabeth. The Queen's officials try to force Elizabeth to confess to treason but she stands her ground because she has committed no such act which is accused of her. Watch out for the head chopping crazy power games held by the mad Queen Mary for the sake of her religious will in the Elizabeth movie. Eventually, Queen Mary dies & Elizabeth (Kate Blanchett) inherits the throne. Eric Cantona is in the Elizabeth movie too.

I am just kidding, although there is a man who looks like him as a diplomatic character from France. No, wait, it is definitely Eric Cantona! He looks like a big person in the movie & yet looked so small on the football field. Without formalities, her love making with Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester (Joseph Fiennes) is made into a voyeur show for the delight of the chamber maids. As she is about to cherish last nights lovemaking, she is urgently called into an emergency meeting in the morning, seemingly at odds with her lover, & having to decide whether to go to war with the Scots in the north with their ally, France. What an experience it is for the new appointed Queen of England. Elizabeth looks angry in the Elizabeth movie.

Perhaps it is because she has to prepare her country for war instead of tasting the fine luxuries of being a Queen have to offer. Every character seems so uptight & stressed out in the movie. Perhaps it is because of the ridiculous 16th century male outfits they wear (Lol) & not to mention the armies of France & Scotland with equally ridiculous male outfits breathing down their English necks. The moral of the story is that never anger a woman who is spared of her luxuries in the Elizabeth movie. Woman must have their luxuries & would even go to war to finally live in luxury to the fullest in the end. Queen Elizabeth united the Church of England against the will of some of the England's bishops. Having done so, the hardcore Roman Catholic die hard fans, with the consent of Rome have sent an assassin, John Ballard (Daniel Craig) to kill the Queen who in their eyes is a heretic.

Wow, a poison dress! Elizabeth finds out about the assassination plot soon enough & has Sir Francis kill & capture her enemies in order to protect her throne. Unfortunately, in the list is inclusive of her ex-lover Lord Robert whom she spares because she understands that he did it only because he was heart broken. Thereafter she starts wearing her wicked hairstyles & heavy make up like a replacement for the statue of the holy Mary herself! Obviously she is close to insanity & it is well portrayed in the Elizabeth movie. Then she declares herself married to England. She is now truly insane! Too bad the Japanese did not have hold of her as she looked like a glorified Geisha at the end of the Elizabeth movie. Not that there were any Japanese royalties in the movie but it would be a blast!