A decent but lightweight film

Rating: 4/10 (10 November 2018)

There is a terrible truth about Winston Churchill. He wasn't a cuddly cigar chomping Grandad to the masses - he was an old school blue blooded Empire man with fiercely racist views, little empathy for the working classes, and a readiness to use chemical weapons.
Winston invested a good deal of time and money exploring Anthrax and toyed with the idea of dumping it in Germany.
Instead we are painfully served a version of Churchill exploring the subway and crying in front of a child.
Make no mistake - Churchill was the monster we needed right then - but he was a monster. Unsurprisingly this is not conveyed on any level in this beige political expediency.
Performance from Gary Oldman is superb as the man the post modern Britain has claimed Churchill to be. Everyone else is meh.
If you can separate the fact from fiction this not unforgiveable and quite watchable. There is nothing here that will upset children either.