GurlyIamBeach Instant Favorite.

Holstra Boring, long, and too preachy.

BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

cbeer25 This movie has sucked me into watching it twice now and, you guys, I'm mad as hell. The trailer leads you to believe that it will be this dramatic re-telling, albeit largely fictional, of Grace Kelly's life when all it really depicts is one or two inconvenient situations that she was faced with. The first time I watched it I was so disappointed and bored by the end but I decided not to review it because I am a Nicole Kidman fan. But then the unthinkable happened. This movie is so boring that I forgot I'd already seen it before and watched it again only to fall victim to the same torturous boredom AGAIN! Do you see what I'm saying, it's that boring I forgot about it. This movie is 1 hour and 43 minutes of stifling yawns and trying to stay awake all while just waiting patiently for it to get even remotely more interesting. What a let down.

Joe Day I imagine that many on this critic's board are old enough to remember the real Grace Kelly and perhaps even old enough to have "been there" at her wedding etc. That would explain all of the pompous reviews.Kelly was not a complicated person. Anyone reading any biographies of her contemporaries (Sinatra, Ava Gardner, Lana Turner, Garland etc.) will know that she was not exactly Little Miss Goody Two-Shoes in Hollywood. Quite the hot tamale actually, if you catch my drift. According to Tony Curtis anyway, the "goody-goody ones" are the nymphomaniacs! But I digress.The movie is just fine. Kidman is very talented, as is the rest of the cast, except for Parker Posey, who is somewhat cartoonish in her character. Perhaps if I had not seen her in so many satirical films with Chris Guest and Company....The film highlights a time in history when the Jet Set was in full swing. Jackie, Princess Margaret, and of course Grace KNEW Jack Kennedy, much to Jackie's chagrin. Plus, we see Ari and Maria and realize what a small incestuous circle it all is.The plot to overthrow Ranier is presented in a sloppy fashion and is difficult to follow if not paying close attention; it may require a bit of re-wind to figure out who is friend and who is foe.The film is very pleasing to the eye as well. It is Miss Kidman's film all the way and she does a superb job. No need to nitpick or split hairs over the details in this one. It is re-watchable.

Tony Heck "At some point every fairy tale must end." Grace Kelly (Kidman) gave up Hollywood in exchange for marriage to Prince Rainier (Roth). Years later she is unhappy and contemplating a return to acting when Alfred Hitchcock offers her a great role. While she is thinking about the movie Charles De Gaulle is making moves to invade and take Monoco for the french. She must now decide if she should return to acting to make herself happy, or help her husband and country fight off the inevitable invasion. I knew nothing about the real story of Grace Kelly and what happened after she left Hollywood so I'm not sure how much of this is accurate so I can't speak to that. Much like the Diana movie with Naomi Watts the movie is good but nothing amazing and not one of the best biopics ever made. The best part of the film is Kidman's performance. The most interesting part to me was the historical events portrayed in this. The french planning an invasion and what Monoco did to try and prevent it. Being a history buff I really liked that aspect and as for the rest of the movie, I thought it was good but not really anything to watch more than once. Overall, a very OK movie with a great performance by Kidman. I give it a B.

2jdv This film purports to be about a "moment in time" and based on "historical events" about Grace Kelly as Princess of Monaco, and it is an utter fabrication from beginning to end. Which would be fine as an imagining but it pretends to be a biopic, and it isn't. It is utterly inaccurate about Grace Kelly herself and the events it presents. It is demeaning both to her and to the history it misportrays. The writer and director obviously have no sense of shame whatsoever and did this film only with an eye on the buck they could make by cashing in on her fame. Fortunately, they lost their shirts on this turkey. Yes, Nicole Kidman and Tim Roth and Frank Angella, as always, did their best and were great. But they were horribly deceived about what this film would be. I think it's fun to reimagine history, but not when you pretend it's fact and completely misrepresent the truth. This film is a travesty of film-making, and a lesson in deception that film-makers should pay attention to. Making fools of us is not fun, or even, in this case, profitable.