Almost the perfect film

Rating: 9/10 (15 November 2004)

I say almost because we all know there is no such thing as perfection but this comes very close .Its sweeping and sensitive style is ao original that I think a lot of the credit to Richard Attenborough for creating it and to Ben Kingsley I have yet to see that man give a less then terrifc performance in anything he ever does he is fantastic .
The film itself shows in great detail the life of a man who refused to be intimidated by lesser people who think that they can bully people buy using the threat of aggression ,a lesson that we could all learn .I love everything about this movie it encapsulates an era and a people who were in the throws of a great change showing the British desperate to hold on to the symbolic figurehead of there empire but the great thing about it is that it does show a massive one sided story against the British it is fair and never at any point is it misleading it is a masterpiece .