Oscar winner all the way..

Rating: 10/10 (22 January 2011)

Superlatives are rightly being bandied around left right and centre for this most brilliant of films. There is NOTHING to detract from this movie, a story brilliantly told effortlessly by all concerned.
Telling the human story of The soon to be King George VI (played brilliantly by Oscar shoe in Colin Firth) who suffers with a stammer that makes his public speaking life unbearably uncomfortable in an age when the Empire was waking to the sounds of their Royals on the new fangled wireless.
In an age when Hitler's Jackboot was threatening to cast it's long shadow over the continent a strong leader, the figurehead of the Empire once he became King, was needed, and a stammering King would in this era be seen as weak.
Enter stage right Lionel Logue, underplayed to perfection by Geoffrey Rush, an Australian speech therapist plying his trade in London to sort out the Duke's problems.
This is a must see film, and surely, if it swept the board at the Oscars justice would be done, it's that good!
I can't think of a film that I have seen in the last year that has been better than this, with a sterling (mainly) British cast (remember..we do actors, not stars)the film is a delight from start to finish.
For the first time in my 52 years a spontaneous round of applause echoed around the theatre at the conclusion.
Ineffably fab!