The fat suit worked

Rating: 7/10 (2 December 2018)

This movie works because Churchill and George VI actually look like themselves. Bad prosthetic makeup or actors that don't look like the well known public figures they are supposed to represent is something that always distracts me.
Delete the tube scene! Too bad for all the good actors in it, but the scene is out of place, like we are suddenly in a cartoon or Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. I can't decide if the scene is there to satisfy the nationalists or the politically correct. Just get rid of it, it ruins the movie big time.
Of course Gary Oldman is superb, he's been superb for decades. Imagine my surprise maybe a year earlier when I discovered he didn't have a single Oscar. Ben Mendelsohn even sounds like the King. Give him the wrong set of teeth and he can play Joe Dimaggio. Kristin Scott Thomas is impeccable, as always.
Just don't distort historical facts, no need for that.