This movie ends with a title card informing the audience who won World War 2.

you winston you lose some

2017's 'Churchill' joins the club of disastrous and bland Oscar-bait. Shot, written and directed like a BBC television special, full of the embarrassing over-acting, sombre-predictable music cues, and rudimentary direction. A truly torturous viewing experience.

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 The British Bulldog faced.

Oh and by the way, the good guys won the war. Just in cause you didn't know, according to the film.

brexit as fuck

So, was Brian Cox playing Winston Churchill or Albert Finney in this movie?

"Alongside the superb cinematography, Cox and Richardson’s performances are the only other saving graces of this film. The way in which they deliver their lines during some of the most intense and emotional scenes really capture your attention."

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good historical drama mixed with a bio-pic of sorts about winston churchill

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Good: Brian Cox is great , but not really Churchill. Richard Durdens old boer Jan Smuts is a scene stealer. Ella Purnell creates a character out of a walking plot device. John Slattery is great as Eisenhower and Julian Wadham equally great as Montgomery.

Bad: A bit too theatrically over the top, both in it's symbolism and scriptwise. Churchill is written very one note, althought the note changes where the script needs it.

Hard not to compare it to Johnny Depp's Churchill of Darkest Hour. Still pretty interesting.

I like the way he says Nar-zees

Interesting but boring

violinist and pianist wrist must be broken.

Perhaps not on the near-masterpiece level of Darkest Hour, but still a richly involving drama in its own right. Wonderful music by Scottish composer Lorne Balfe. 

Viewed: 4K UHD. Upscaled from 2K. 2.39:1.