Review of Darkest Hour (2017) by Ginak — 12 Dec 2017

Although this film is very traditional, I really enjoyed it. Gary Oldman gives a great performance as Churchill and he has an excellent supporting cast. In its way, it is a propaganda film, but it is also solid and engrossing in its story-telling and a lot of fun for history buffs especially.

I liked it a lot better than the Dunkirk film, but perhaps it is a bit too perfect. Somehow the film doesn’t encourage you to realize that things could have gone very wrong if the British had not been lucky enough to have the right leader at the right time and one to whom the right things happened {like his serendipitous first and only trip on the London “Tubes”).