The Emperor's new clothes

Rating: 4/10 (22 October 2019)

This is an interesting episode of British history, poorly told and annoyingly staged. The acting is indeed, excellent, and Coleman superb. But the film fails to grip in the way a historical drama should. Other comments have (rightly) criticised the infuriatingly jarring soundtrack, where a couple of flat notes are repeated loudly, for no good reason that anyone could possibly fathom. Whoever decided that that was a good idea, is clearly borderline insane. Yes there are laughs, or more accurately, guffaws, but there are too many flaws in the whole piece to make it more than mildly entertaining. Not worth the two hours of your time.