Review of Darkest Hour (2017) by Dubeau — 14 Jan 2018

This movie will makes people think of Lincoln, but also the Dunkirk movie. The performance of Oldman is by far amazing, inspiring. And his portrait of Churchill is human and touching. The story focus on the political side of the events in Britain, and in that sens, just enough of the war is said and showed.

And it does use some scenes for emotional effect, rather then historical. So no, it's not a true historic film, But it has the quality of showing how hard it was to stand as politician in a period of conflict.

It put some perspective to a movie like Dunkirk. I don't know if it was intentional or an opportunistic move, but the timing is good. I give it a 78% because of Oldman and the actors around him.