In the past week or two "The Favourite" has been mentioned for many awards. It has been called 'wickedly entertaining', 'hilarious', 'black comedy at its best', 'delectable wit', 'a riff on "All About Eve" and a metacritic.com 91% rating of critics and a 8.5 out of 10 rating while the critic's rating on Rotten Tomatoes is 94% and 66% audience rating. Even though I had not liked director Yorgos Lanthimos's "The Lobster" between word of mouth regarding the performances of the 3 lead actresses and the talk of awards I was looking forward to 2 hours of fun, laughter and sarcastic wit. After an hour I was ready to walk out but I stayed and kept hoping something would happen for me to change my mind about this film. Neither a duck race, a naked, fat man being pelted with pomegranates by other men in long curly wigs or a wife thinking/planning a way of getting rid of a rival's power over the queen while she masturbates her husband changed my mind. Yes the acting by Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz is first rate, especially by Coleman, and the power struggles between Lady Sarah (Weisz) and her cousin Abigail (Stone) including seducing the Queen (Coleman), mentally and physically, plus playing the men, in many ways, is typical of the genre while the war games between the heads of State of the French and English is really ho-hum. "The Favorurite" took 2 hours of my life and didn't give me 1 laugh but it did give long, dark walks along castle hallways and backways with panoramic scenes of ballrooms, bedrooms and meeting rooms. It also gave me a very annoying soundtrack of what seemed, in 50% of the film, was a beat and what sounded like a bell. In no way can I recommend this film! Movie trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYb-wkehT1g