Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Myriam Nys "Grace of Monaco" is mainly bland, polished nonsense, mixed with product placement and name dropping. It wastes your time with random drivel and wanders from one meaningless incident to another. The few ideas it does succeed in having or expressing are unkind, entitled or retrograde. For instance, the viewer is supposed to admire, nay venerate Grace for her brave determination to learn something about the language and culture of Monaco. Can you believe it : she even - gasp ! - talks with some locals !God ! If you're going to make a new and permanent home in another country, the very least you can do is learn the language. This becomes a positive duty if you're married to a member of the royal family. How are you going to represent or defend your new country, if you're unable to walk into a coffee shop and ask for one coffee, black, two lumps of sugar please ? By the same token, all members of a royal family should be familiar with social habits and traditions - it's one of the most basic requirements for the job. But no, the viewer is supposed to adore the Grace character for her pluck, bravery and self-sacrifice. Half-hidden beneath this exhortation there are some pretty nasty assumptions and prejudices. Try : "No American should have to learn a foreign language, it's up to foreigners to learn English". Or : "Rich people don't have to worry about the needs and feelings of proles". Or : "If taxpayers throw you large chunks of money, you should not feel obliged to do something in return". Another idea the movie is trying to sell to you : there is no need to worry about the existence of Panama-like tax havens, provided these havens yield a crop of good-looking celebrities. Still, I for one could live with the thought of the various creators of "Grace" living in undeserved luxury, if that meant that they would never make another movie again.

Lola A If only politics was so easy and all it takes to manipulate influential leaders with political agendas was a pretty speech and face. I mean really? I am not familiar with any sort of history regarding the Kingdom of Monaco or Grace Kelly (I only heard about her from this movie) so I won't talk about how correct or representative this movie was, I will treat it as a factional movie with no roots to reality. The real-life lesson: thinking that all this movie is about is to make us think about real life, I find really hard to pick one concept on which I can reflect. Nothing about this movie makes you think 'I better remember this'. So very poor in this area. Maybe one thing would be that for some people the obligation they have inherited or have been believed with, is much more important that the relationships in their life, especially when they take them from granted as it is the case in kingdom. Character analysis: Prince Rainier, trying to fulfil his obligation. A good demonstration that having the greatest responsibilities could just be one of the worst things that would happen to you. If you value relationships and feelings (as I do) maybe having the most important job in the country is not the best thing that can happen to you. Grace-clash of cultures. Speaking your mind is sure a good thing but is it really the smartest thing to do when you are trying to politically score points? Thats why is called politics. No one speaks their minds and no one tells the truth. Plausibility: not in a million years could someone convince me that it would be so easy to end a political conflict. It is true that you can achieve a lot of things based on beauty and rhetoric, it is true that those two can influence weak men but these people in those tables, they were not weak men. You can't win an international conflict by those two alone. There are interests, money and a lot more at stake that can not be given up so easily. Not even for a good public image. Could France not have manipulated the public opinion just as easily since it did seem as quite an easy thing to do. So no, the crucial events in this movie are not plausible at all. Acting: I must just say that Nicole Kidman was as great as you would expect and as great as it can get. She makes us love Grace, feel for her and even when she is the position of authority there is still something in her that reminds you that she is still the fragile, unconfident woman she was when she first came to Monaco. I just loved her performance. She is indeed very graceful. Storytelling: It was a bit slow in the middle and it did bore me in the middle. It just seemed that the movie was becoming directionless. But in the end when Grace makes plans, waiting the results of those plans is quite interesting and does engage you. Also, I would it too political most of the time. It felt that the movie was not about Grace but about the conflict that I did not understand at first and took a lot of concentration and effort and a lot of " and what does that mean? Is it and or good" which kind of spoiled the easy of watching this movie. It should be more politically relaxed. And also, all those parts in French. I did not understand a thing which made it boring despite the fact that the meaning could easily be worked out from context.

PippinInOz Usually, when I watch a film, when it is clearly not my cup of tea, I switch off. The only reason this film gets a three out of ten rating is because, it truly is, mesmerizingly awful. You won't be able to look away, because: 1. There are some seriously good actors here, Tim Roth and Derek Jacobi, Geraldine Summerville, Robert Lyndsay and Nicole Kidman. So watching them all doing their best as it all goes from bad to worse is like watching a car crash. It must have looked so much more compelling in the script yes? 2. The half hearted attempt to make the film as a homage to films that Grace Kelly starred in. (See the nod and the wink when Nicole's Grace drives down the hill - 'To Catch a Thief') There is also the film stock used which is also reminiscent at particular moments of 1950s films. Also, the over wrought music score.3. By the final penultimate scene when the character 'Grace' (sorry, but it just seems so rude to refer to this creation as Grace Kelly) makes a frankly mawkish and very average speech......you will be dumbstruck.......clearly, we, as the audience, are being poked and nudged to 'feel' great emotion over this moment, as if 'Grace' is making a speech on a par with Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech! Oh dear oh dear.4. The entire narrative premise is dodgy - no matter how the script tries to hide it, this is basically a tale of a very wealthy principality, a tax haven no less, 'fighting the evil Republic' so they can maintain that position.It is one of those films where you know you are supposed to be cheer leading for the main character, but it all comes across - to me anyway - as extremely forced. Having watched a few documentaries over the years about Grace Kelly, she sounds like a complex, down to earth woman, not the wispy character we see here.Make your own mind up ladies and gentlemen, do give it a go, because as I say, it is mesmerizing, just not in the way the film makers hoped.

Love_Life_Laughter No one who watched Grace Kelly's life unfold could question, seeing the expression in her eyes, that she paid a large price for her ascent to royalty. While this movie is dissed roundly, it is often dissed roundly by men, who focus on the historical details (evidently not accurate down to the letter, while I would guess these same men would overlook similar literary license in say, "The Bridge over the River Kwai.") But this is about a woman who had risen to the height of power in Hollywood, and gave it all up for her family and husband. It is very clear that the Monegasques held her hostage, for so shining an actress would clearly step away from her source of creativity and power (financial, creative, you name it) only when forced. I personally have often wondered if Grace's family, with it's famous athleticism and competitiveness, forced her to a height of so-called "achievement" with a brand of snobbery and narrow-mindedness that overlooked her incredible acting talents and achievements in favor of a traditional role - "snaring" the world's greatest single man "catch" of the time- which of course turned into a nightmare. That is what is strongly implied here and this is a wonderful movie of discovery - watching Grace understand that her life is now a permanent movie role, ultimately her acting ability being used to place Monaco on the world stage. Whether or not Grace was instrumental in somehow saving Monaco from French aggression, this emotional journey rings true. It is the story, really, of every woman who either chooses to or is forced to subsume her own worldly ambitions for home and family, and the price that she pays. A price that men often cannot even recognize, even in the movies. Bravo to Nicole Kidman for this sensitive portrayal of the princess held captive in her castle, choked by her diamonds and weighted by her tiara. Keep them (the men desiring to lock us women up, breeding and smiling) squirming!