Oscar-worthy performance by Oldman, but a lost attempt on a fascinating subject

Rating: 6/10 (14 January 2018)

Oldman delivers a superb performance here, you can barely recognize him under the heavy prosthetics that make him look like Churchill (compared to that, the makeup that tried to make DiCaprio try to look like J. Edgar Hoover is a joke).
Too bad that with a fascinating and controversial character like Churchill, from all the stories they could portray - They could have shown his leadership during the Blitz, during the North African campaign, the italian campaign and the leadup to the D-day, but from all of these they chose to write about the couple of weeks before Operation Dynamo. That would be like making a film about Jesus and show only the Cleansing Of The Temple. It's just half of the whole story. A lost attempt indeed.
Being a history buff, I'd give this one a 3/10, but i added 3 stars for the sake of Oldman's performance.