Truly a phenomenal film

Rating: 10/10 (10 January 2011)

"The King's Speech" is simply one of the best films I've ever seen and a sure bet to walk away with a truckload of Oscars. I've never seen finer acting that that of Colin Firth as a wreck of a successor to the throne and especially Geoffrey Rush, the friend, confidant and speech therapist who was directly responsible for the combination of the rhetoric of Prime Minister Churchill and King George VI working in concert to buoy the spirits of and encourage the shell-shocked citizens of a beleaguered United Kingdom.
An exceptional film in every sense.A situation that's been kept under wraps for over 80 years. A now- exposed situation that's simply too hard to believe. An astonishing film, filled with pathos and dignity--the story of a man having to fight his own demons while acting as the determined and resolute royal figurehead of a great island nation in its most perilous hour.And of course let us not forget that it was a great American leader named Franklin Roosevelt who led us through those days from a wheelchair. Yes, it's history that makes men and not the other way around.