Review of Darkest Hour (2017) by Hotelcentral — 26 Sep 2018
If you as an audience member are in love with things that go boom then this is not the film for you, because "Darkest Hour" is a film created by people who know something about drama, and dialog, and character, and how to hold people's attention without any need for chattering machine-guns and roaring explosions and 120 minutes of unending carnage.
This is one of the best films I've seen in years and it won something like 5 separate awards for best film, including the Oscar and the British Academy award. Gary Oldman is excellent and won something in excess of 15 awards for best actor, including the Oscar and the British Academy award. The story is engrossing. Makeup, costumes, and cinematography all won awards as well. And at least one historian is on record as saying that Oldman nailed it: the man, the gestures, the speech patterns, etc.
If you haven't seen it by now, get the DVD, get it from your local library, borrow it from your cousin, but see it.
This review of Darkest Hour (2017) was written by Hotelcentral on 26 Sep 2018.
Darkest Hour has generally received very positive reviews.
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