A good movie

Since I kept hearing some pretty good things about this flick, I was quite eager to check it out. Well, the first tricky thing with this movie was that even though you see Winston Churchill struggling, we all know that he would eventually prevail and become one of the most famous British Prime Ministers. Eventually, somehow, even if we already knew the outcome, the makers still had to manage to make the story either entertaining or interesting enough. I have to admit that, since I’m half-French half-Dutch, I have always been intrigued by the history of Great Britain during WWII since this country had such a vastly different experience of this war than France and the Netherlands. Still, even though it might seem that the whole thing was historically accurate, actually, half of it was pretty much some fantasy to promote the glory of the famous Briton. The most obvious scene was when Churchill took a sudden trip with the London underground. I mean, you don’t need a PHD in British history to figure out that something like this never happened and I thought it was a rather heavy-handed trick to display that Churchill was actually really interested in what the average British folk was thinking and feeling about these dramatic events. However, if you dig a little further, you might discover that this movie was actually filled with other historical inaccuracies which was slightly disappointing. Above all, it would have been nice if they had delivered a more nuanced portrait of the British politician. Still, there is no doubt that Gary Oldman gave a stellar performance here and the guy was here quite spellbinding to behold. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, it was still a well-made historical biopic and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.