Granted, none of the acting nor any of the production values were worth writing home about, I think there are and have been far worse romance films. My big quarrel with this one is its opportunism. William and Kate are real-and-now people, and decent ones as far as I can tell, who deserve a degree of privacy that a film like violates most cynically. True, most of the script is based on conjecture (and cliché) and probably doesn't reflect much at all of what was really going on. But to desecrate the occasion of their wedding this way, whatever the film makers may or may not have got right, is simply obscene.
At the same time, I thought the major characters (except for poor Prince Charles) were treated sympathetically. One sequence that had me rolling my eyes and kind of grinning sympathetically at the same time, was the scene in which she dove from her boat, the crew girls cheered, etc. It probably didn't happen that way, but it should have.
At the same time, I thought the major characters (except for poor Prince Charles) were treated sympathetically. One sequence that had me rolling my eyes and kind of grinning sympathetically at the same time, was the scene in which she dove from her boat, the crew girls cheered, etc. It probably didn't happen that way, but it should have.