pretty good BUT----

Rating: 7/10 (13 March 2011)

No question this is a good movie; albeit a fairly minor one I think, about a footnote in history, and how a powerless figurehead king gained some respect at a critical period in not only his life, bu that of his country as well. My only beefs come from things I know as a physician. Firstly, I never heard anyone stutter the way Colin Firth does in this role. They usually sound a little more like Elmer Fudd, and we can certainly understand Colin not wanting to sound like Elmer, because that's comical, but then, how did you get "Best Actor" when you didn't accurately portray what a stutterer really sounds like? Likewise for the competently played but one dimensional figure of the supportive wife, also nominated inexplicably for "Best Actress". My other "doctor" type complaint concerns the death scene of George V. Hollywood just doesn't get death scenes; they have no idea what people look like when they die, how pale and gray and awful they look. The Hollywood death scenes always include some pink ruddy-looking chap trying to lie still with no expression on his face. It's just not like that!