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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767064262
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Miniseries, NTSC
ISBN: 0767064267
Label: A&E Home Video
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 27, 2004
Running Time: 188 minutes
Sales Rank: 16140
Studio: A&E Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: March 21, 2004
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
It's not always good to be king in this fascinating BBC/A&E historical drama, featuring a complex performance by Rufus Sewell as the exiled British monarch who returned to a volatile, post-Cromwell England in the 17th century. Pressed to forgive the enemies who killed his father, Charles II takes the throne and finds himself squeezed from all sides by vicious power brokers, his vengeful mother (Diana Rigg), a manipulative mistress (Helen McCrory), dubious advisers, a contrarian best friend (Rupert Graves), and his bewildered Portuguese wife (Shirley Henderson). Problems with the Plague and Charles's own, restless libido further complicate family and political dramas, but beneath the king's operatic tenure are visible strains of progressive government: Charles, after all, ushered in an early era of democracy in England. The Last King's sharp script never slows, but it's the cast's intense performances that bring royal intrigues to life. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Hmmmm... skip this one.
No, I didn't like it. First of all, Rufus Sewell is supremely miscast as King Charles II - he doesn't look anything like him. Charles II was a swarthy man, with very dark hair and thick lips. The producers seem to have thought that you can just put a wig on someone's head and that's it - but, in a biographical movie, the actor has to look at least a bit like the character he is supposed to be portraying (see, for example, Stephen Fry's Oscar Wilde, or Philip Seymour Hoffmann's Truman Capote - both ... Read More
Rating:  - A leadership portrait
This film which begins with the beheading of Charles I follows the life of Charles II from the time he is a 19 year old exile in Holland until the end of his reign in 1685.
The film gets an overall top rating for the superb acting, sharp dialogue, excellent art direction and photography, and masterful costume, hair and makeup. This last comment may seem odd until you see the hairstyles of Catherine Braganza as she arrives from Portugal or the make-up and styling of Barbara Villiers, ... Read More
Rating: - Almost Unknown TV Series
This DVD of an English TV series came up on an internet search for an actor. We had no idea that it existed. It is a great series on Charles II a perfect solution to the wasteland of current US televison, cable and movies.
Rating: - Alas...this is a shorter version!!
I was fortunate to be able to watch the original four hour version. I would give five starts to the original but four to the shortened version as I don't think anything should be cut from the coherent story.
The only reservation I have is over casting. I always imagined Lady Castlemaine (Charles' longtime lover) to be a sensuous, beautiful, radiant, yet shrewed (like businessman)court lady. But the actress who played her didn't fit the description. She looked like (from the beginning)one tired ... Read More
Rating: - The Last KIng enjoyed
I liked this movie very much, partly because I am a fan of Charkes the II partly because there was excellent acting and the movie was well executed. What turned me off was the lack of subtitles. I am an old man suffering from a hearing loss and while I could hear Rufus Sewell well enough I found his wife inpossible to understand and some of the other characters were marginal. If lack of hearing is not a problem one well might enjoy it. This movie is not for everybody. Yet how many movies are? BB
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