This movie impressed me as no other, before or since

Rating: 10/10 (16 July 2006)

I saw it in the theater, when it just came out. At the end, people just filed out silently. No-one felt an urge to comment right at that moment. One of the great movies.
The performance by Ben Kingsley is so strong that it spoiled him for me in almost all movies since (except for Sexy Beast, where I didn't recognize him for a while).
Not being a student of history, I wouldn't know how historically accurate the film is. I hope (and expect) the basic facts are straight, but there's bound to be a lot of romanticizing. Unfortunately, it seems impossible that political affairs could be solved in any remotely comparable way these days, except for the very end that is.