So Mary queen of scots

I enjoyed it. Visually beautiful, not just in the period costuming, but the stunning locations.  Generally good, if not amazing performances all around, and it's always a pleasure to watch Saoirse Ronan.  Honestly, I expected it to be very "Game of Thrones" influenced, but aside from one gruesome scene, it is a fairly bloodless movie. The one battle scene seems no more violent than a Civil War recreation battle. If the movie fell short in any way for me, I thought it lacked a properly cathartic climax (though it came close in that fictionalized meeting between Mary and Elizabeth).  I found it very interesting that Mary aspired to greater power by marriage and childbirth, but those ultimately led to her downfall, while for Elizabeth it was the exact opposite.