Starring:
Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, Benedict
Cumberba…
Review:
Guys may assume the film version of Philippa Gregory’s chick-lit
bestseller about two Boleyn sisters who bed Henry VIII as a way to
secure the fortune of their pimp family, is a form of dude torture.
They’re wrong. And not because first-time director Justin Chadwick
does a consummate job of bringing Peter Morgan’s script to
cinematic life — he doesn’t. The film moves in frustrating
herks and jerks. What works is the combustible teaming of Natalie
Portman and Scarlett Johansson, who give the Boleyn hotties a tough
core of intelligence and wit, swinging the film’s sixteenth-
century protofeminist issues handily into this one.
Johansson plays it subtle-sultry as Mary, who bears Henry (Eric
Bana) two bastard children but can’t get him to divorce his wife.
It’s Portman’s more calculat…

Rating: 2 Stars