An average movie

Honestly, I never liked Margaret Thatcher. I would go even further by saying that she pretty much embodied the political ideas I despised. Still, it doesn’t mean a movie about her should be uninteresting. In the contrary, she is basically the only woman who managed to have such an impact on British political history, hell, in world political history. Unfortunately, the whole thing was poorly structured and misguided from the start which is hardly surprising when since they thought it was a good idea to hire the director of ‘Mamma Mia!’. Indeed, who cares that she was some lonely senile lady at the end of her life? I mean, we will pretty much all end up like this and I thought it was really unfair to portray one of the toughest women that ever lived in such disposition. Same thing about her husband, Jim Broadbent gave once again a really solid performance but they spent just way too much time dwelling on their relationship. They were dealing with a political leader who shaped, for good or bad, Great Britain’s identity, that’s what we wanted to see and, instead, they just quickly told us what happened like some bullet points which was really disappointing. Fortunately, Meryl Streep was just brilliant, as usual, and it is thanks to her that the whole thing was watchable but, without her, it would have been a big waste of time. To conclude, I still think it is worth a look but, with such potential, it could have been much better.

6/10