Decent enough fare for the silver-haired cinema-goers

Rating: 6/10 (23 April 2018)

If the title of this review seems a little condescending my only excuse is that I am one of those silver-haired cinema-goers and I quickly sussed out from the actors involved (Tom Courtney, Penelope Wilton) that we would be served up a variation on "Quartet" and "Exotic Marigold Hotel". And so it transpired. Nothing wrong with that I will be the first to admit but perhaps I was looking for something with a bit more bite. Guernsey was a Nazi occupied territory during the war and there is a story to be told but here we fall back into something that is more or less a romance/mystery story which telegraphs its ending way before the end of its two hours running time (cuts could have been made).
There are plot holes, coincidences and events that may worry the more discerning of viewers and when one begins to wonder just how many changes of clothes the character played by Lily James can squeeze into a very small suitcase one realises that the incidentals are beginning to overtake the story.
Not having read the book I cannot comment on any changes that might have been made.