Grace of Monaco: A Royal Bore.

Today I went to see Grace of Monaco starring the ever stunning Nicole Kidman along with Parker Posey, Milo Ventimiglia, Tim Roth and Frank Langella. With a star studded cast and the tragic tale of a starlet-gone-princess this could have been a promising film and I'd anticipated it with excitement. Sadly I was hugely let down by this snooze fest of a film. No wonder this film is bombing at the UK box office.

Filled with arbitrarily long moments of silence and extended close ups of Nicole Kidman's facial features, the film made for uncomfortable and dull viewing. It starts and ends with moments of silence which leaves the audience sitting there, awkwardly waiting in silence. Not even the lovely Nicole Kidman could save this flop. It skips so much of Grace's life to focus on the conflict between Monaco and France which, apparently, is all brushed over with an overly cliché and American speech you'd expect to find from a Miss America pageant contestant. It fails to deliver a dramatic crescendo or even to create any real sense of plot tension or character sympathy. No character feels relatable, characters are without chemistry and the film rushes by, glazing over an entire life to use Grace Kelly's character to narrate political difficulty rather than exploring her life properly.

As it ended I was left thinking 'Was that it?"

Nicole Kidman managed to portray more charm, higher class and a better story in her Chanel No 5 commercial.