Synopsis
The untold story of D-Day.
A ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day.
2017 Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky
A ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day.
Embankment Films Head Gear Films Lipsync Productions Silver Reel Metrol Technology Salon Pictures Tempo Productions
Темні часи, 처칠, Τσώρτσιλ, Чърчил, Черчилль, צ'רצ'יל, 丘吉尔, チャーチル ノルマンディーの決断, 邱吉爾
This movie ends with a title card informing the audience who won World War 2.
I have to give Brian Cox all the credit for this performance, as he puts his heart & soul into this. Unfortunately, I can't say the rest for the movie itself. Just like what I said about "Mr. Holmes", this could've been a TV movie, not a feature film. Nothing too exciting or interesting happens in this story about the paranoia that the British bulldog faced.
Oh, and by the way, the good guys won the war. Just in case you didn't know, according to the film.
Churchill is a bad film. It asks the question "What if The British Bulldog had balls of steel, but was also kinda a mopey pussy?"
I'll give it a one star bump for Brian Cox's great performance with the material he is given and some of the haunting visuals in the first four or five minutes. After that, it's an incredible bland and misguided biopic.
If you're in the mood for a bunch of old posh cunts bickering in stately homes then boy do I have a movie recommendation for you!
Often ranked among the greatest Britons ever to have lived, the film Churchill removes the bravado and the inspirational speeches, leaving a haunted and torn man. Hallucinating visions of blood washing up on English shores, the death toll is taking its own toll on the man who was fighting the war long before the Americans decided to join in.
John Slattery’s Dwight D. Eisenhower is confident and amid a political stride, while Brian Cox’s Churchill is lumbering, quick to anger, and losing control. Eisenhower’s plan for Normandy is either the path to victory or it’s a slaughter that will leave the Allies in tatters. Churchill is at a loss, believing he knows better, having learned lessons from World War I,…
Unfortunately, for me, it didn't look like a good retelling of the life of Winston Churchill, it rather looked like a propaganda film. We have this figure, and the film constantly shows his great achievements, and even how in its worst moments, it was only building up to a great thing. I don't think that's how humans can be described as. There is weakness and strengh, and sometimes failing it's just failing, and not a catapulte to success. I don't know if I'm making sense, but I think, as good of a performance as this one was, it lacked humanity in order to be a good biopic.
Driven by Brian Cox’s assured and nuanced performance, Churchill is a competent and understated, but also pedestrian, uneven and often monotonous biopic.
Brian Cox was fabulous and I guess he portrayed Churchill in this biopic very well, " We will never Surrender" what a famous quote. A very slow moving film, still nice to see what Churchill did and try to do, bit like a history lesson. Looking forward to the version of Churchill acted by Garupy Oldman. Would watch again.
A prime slice of bafta-bait.
I'm glad the music was kind enough to tell me what to feel because the movie sure as hell didn't.