I thought it a flat movie that never reached its full potential. Gorgeous cinematography and costumes doesn't make up for it. The character of Mary in this movie is too one-sided as the wronged, manipulated woman...the victim of men. If there was anything about Mary it was that she was not a woman who wanted pity or for anyone to feel sorry for her. While it's true that her demise was at the hands of men who sought power, there was so much more to her than that and it was not sufficiently brought out in this movie IMO.