Great Performance Carries

Rating: 7/10 (30 December 2017)

So today I saw Darkest Hour staring Gray Oldman and it was pretty good. Oldman clearly elevated the movie beyond it's story and without his ability the movie would have suffered. The camera work was serviceable, with quite a few scenes having good camera motion, mostly rotating shots. Other than that it was just fine.
A good portion of this movie centered around the whole Dunkirk situation so if you've seen that movie than it is pretty interesting to see what it was like from the other side of the channel.
Spoilers (I guess, it's history spoiler alert the Nazis lose), but there's a really good scene where Churchill goes on a subway and he gets the opinions of the public. It was a good scene to see how charismatic he was and how he used it to be a better leader.
Overall, I'd give this movie a 7/10.