I love this movie so much

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

hyped garbage

Absolutely Fantastic

Well I wasn't expecting much of this film anyway but it was very disappointing I'm not sure why Naomi Watts was chosen to play the role of Diana because in my opinion she is nothing like her. As far as the actual film is concerned, I didn't like how it focused so much on the relationship between Diana and Hasnat Khan. It also seemed to focus mostly on the most photographic parts of Diana's life like the landmine visit, the clothes auction that William suggested and of course the infamous photos of her on Dodi's Liner before her death. In my opinion it's just portraying what everyone already has seen but Naomi Watts adds nothing to it. There was only one Diana and no one can replace her. I can totally understand the negative reviews. Some people's lives are just better left alone.

When I heard about this movie I thought it was going to be a more or less biographical film, like the ones that were already made for other personalities (and it seems that, after "The Queen" and "Iron Lady", the trend is to take British personalities of most recent decades). But this movie was far from it. In fact, I don't know to what extent this film is biographical because its not able to decently tell the life of Diana Spencer, who went down in history as Princess of Wales by marrying the heir to the British crown. If we don't have well present in memory all her life we will leave the room without completely understanding the film, because it explains very little and focuses more on the time after the separation of the royal couple. And let's face it, many of us no longer remember her life. More than ten years have passed since her death and almost no one has an elephant's memory.Then we have Naomi Watts in the lead role. She is a good actress and was certainly a solid bet of the director, Oliver Hirschbiegel. The physical resemblance between her and the late princess is evident and was well used, but it lacks to this Diana the good script and solid dialogues that would give to the film a quality that, in this way, does not have. Anyway, since Diana is such a beloved personality even today, it took some courage to make the film, and so I can consider it was a merit effort, even if it failed at what was essential.

I saw the dreadful Nicole Kidman as princess Grace Kelly biographical film Grace of Monaco, a year before there came this biographical film about probably the British nation's, if not one of the world's, most famous princesses, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel (Downfall, The Invasion). Basically this film tells the story of the last two years in the life of Diana, Princess of Wales (Razzie nominated Naomi Watts), beginning with the events following her divorce from Prince Charles, including the infamous Panorama interview with Martin Bashir (Prasanna Puwanarajah). Following this, Diana is visiting a hospital, where she meets Pakistani heart surgeon Dr. Hasnat Khan (Lost's Naveen Andrews), he is questionably calm towards her as they spend time together, and it builds into a relationship where both have developed loving feelings for each other. Diana knows that any relationship would cause a media storm, so she and Hasnat keep their love a secret, in the meantime Diana goes to Angola to campaign against the use of land mines, and she travels to Australia, Pakistan, New York, Bosnia, Italy and ultimately Paris, France to get involved in causes, it also shows her changes in fashion. Hasnat cannot take the pressures of their hidden relationship any longer, and he objects to Diana's celebrity status stopping them having a private life, so her desires for a life with him are ended when he breaks their relationship, Diana is heartbroken. In an attempt to make Hasnat jealous Diana starts dating Egyptian Dodi Fayed (Cas Anvar), son of billionaire and Harrods Department Store owner Mohamed Al-Fayed, and for a while it seems to work. But on 31st August 1997 tragedy occurs, Diana is last seen (on camera) inside a lift, before getting in Fayed's car, after being chased by reporters the car crashes in the Pont Alma Tunnel, in Paris, France, Diana, Fayed and the driver are killed (this is unseen), Hasnat is devastated to hear the news, all he can in the end is place a bunch of flowers where many well wishers have. Also starring Douglas Hodge as Paul Burrell, Geraldine James as Oonagh Shanley-Toffolo, Charles Edwards as Patrick Jephson, Juliet Stevenson as Sonia, Daniel Pirrie as Jason Fraser, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade's Michael Byrne as Christiaan Barnard, Laurence Belcher as Prince William, Harry Holland as Prince Harry and Art Malik as Samundar. Watts may be British (I assumed she was either Australian or American), and she does have a relatively good likeness to the real Diana, "the most famous woman in the world", but all she does is do daft mannerisms, be overly nice, act naive in certain situations and put on some tears for sympathy. The bigger problem however is how the film is played out, it is like a mushy and predictable romantic drama with a forbidden love, the "people's princess" is made to look like a simple-minded blonde, it has the most terrible script, especially during the lovey dovey scenes, a fluffy and ultimately awful historical romance. Adequate!

I don't know why people think Naomi Watts wasn't the best actress in this because she really was! OK in some scenes, she didn't exactly look like Princess Diana but in most scene's she has done! She looked absolutely beautiful by the way!I loved how she had put a 'shy girl' attitude on her character, I have always thought Diana had that in her! Her voice was just so lovely and soft. Any little princess would've loved to have her as a mum! Naveen Andrews was the best actor to play an Indian doctor. He appears to be the person who never tries to slip his own accent. He really made a good job being in character. Some actors would let their own accents take over control when being in character.Bravo to all actors involved :)