Dreadful Two Hours

Rating: 4/10 (31 December 2017)

This is an attempt to look at Winston Churchill in the same way that a few back movie makers looked at Lincoln. The problem is that Lincoln was well written and Darkest Hour is a script nightmare. Lincoln looked at one aspect of his presidency and we were shown the trials and tribulations of working towards that one goal. Darkest Hour has a script that is all over the place. It would have worked better had it focused on one aspect of Churchill, but it doesn't.
We see him become Prime Minister, but nothing is really given credence on why he was so targeted by politic rivals or why the King was so hesitant to trust him. If you are going to mention those aspects, it would help to identify and explain them in more detail.
While the advertisement shows a lot about Dunkirk - Dunkirk is just a blurb in the film. I was looking for more information about Dunkirk, but it is just one of many background items that are superficial to this script.
45 minutes into the film I looked at my watch and was shocked that it was only 45 minutes since it had felt like it was two hours into the film. This film feels long - it feels very long since it is poorly written and it drags on and on and on.
Not one that I would recommend.