Ambling

The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)

This film is what Hollywood likes to do with history, not look at actual history and not explore potentially fleshed out alternate histories but mess with a historic basis to try and tell an entertaining story instead. It is hard to say much in favour of the plot, it is distorted history and has holes such as Mary Boleyn's first husband randomly disappearing never to be heard from again.

You would think that by casting Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson and Eric Bana in a film that you could not go wrong but when it is a film about historic British figures it does feel like a let down that we could not even get one British actor or actress in there when there are a few decent ones kicking about.

While it is hard to say much in favour of the film it is also fairly hard to say that it is a bad film either so I give it a middle of the road 3/5, probably best suited to teenage girls.