Not the best Chuchill

Rating: 8/10 (22 December 2017)

We saw the movie early as part of the Mill Valley Film Festival. I was somewhat apprehensive going in as though I've been a fan of Gary Oldman I just didn't see him as Churchill. I suspect others didn't as well and just couldn't get over their preconceived bias and consequently, we have a love or hate (1 or 10) review of the movie. I gave it a 8, as I thought it captured the building tension in London as well as the political tension but, and I think this should be a bigger but, if you listen to Churchill's speech as broadcast, he delivered it with a sing-song, almost "who cares" cadence in his voice whereas Oldman delivered it as everyone thought Churchill should have, and WC didn't, which made him one of the greatest speech writers and worst orators of the era.