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Critics Consensus: Churchill gets sterling work out of Brian Cox in the leading role, but it isn't enough to overcome a muddled and ultimately unsuccessful approach to an incredible real-life story.
Critic Consensus: Churchill gets sterling work out of Brian Cox in the leading role, but it isn't enough to overcome a muddled and ultimately unsuccessful approach to an incredible real-life story.
All Critics (108) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (53) | Rotten (55)
Likely to do well with its intended audience of WWII buffs and those old enough to remember the man first time round.
The script, written by neophyte Alex von Tunzelmann, is appalling, its plot simplistic and its dialogue alternating between misplaced bits of contemporary psycho-babble and improbable grandiloquence.
Cox makes an impressive Churchill, an imposing man of physique and intellect who, closing in on 70, has been laid low by age and circumstance.
Too often Churchill feels more like an exposé than a deep-dish psychological exploration. Still, there are moments in Cox's performance when we can locate the living, breathing man inside the commemorative statue, and that's not nothing.
A load of utter rubbish from first frame to last.
Maybe one of the top five best-looking bad films ever made, thanks at least in part to cinematographer David Higgs' mastery of the long shot and the team assigned to scouting and securing locations.
A fascinating look at a compressed but crucial few days in Britain's history. It's a painstakingly directed and well-acted historical biopic.
This approach has the capacity to make its subject appear a repellant and even pathetic figure, but for avoiding that fate we can largely thank Cox for a magisterial and empathetic performance that gets under the leader's skin.
Inserts as protagonist a man who resembles Prime Minister Winston Churchill in almost no ways whatsoever.
I'll leave it to real historians to separate fact from fiction, but for all its provocations -- and von Tunzelmann admits she has manipulated some events -- this is certainly a film that gets you thinking.
The story itself is desperately repetitive and ungrateful, and to overcome it we invented cinema. [Full review in Spanish]
Sadly, "underwhelming" is the only word to describe the movie...
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