Darkest Hour review

Welcome back, everyone.

The most boring month of the year is drawing to a close. As apart of the last weekend of the month till another year I decided to review a film that at the moment has won lead actor Gary Oldman a lot of awards, yes I'm talking about Darkest Hour.

The film starts in the first year of the Second World War and Neville Chamberlain is booted out of Parliament for allowing Hitler to invade Poland, his party is forced into electing a new Prime Minister for a new coalition Government. Churchill is elected due to him be the favourite of the opposition so he should work well with them. The film covers two events in the war which are Germany's invasion of Europe and the Dunkirk crisis where the whole British Army could have been demolished by the hands of the Nazi's. With Britain in a lot of trouble, Churchill is struggling to decide what is best for the country as there is a temptation for peace talks with Mussolini one of Hitler's most trusted allies.

The film could be nothing without it's cast as it has some strong actors such as Gary Oldman as Churchill, Kristin Scott Thomas as his wife Clementine Churchill, Lily James as his typist Elizabeth Layton and Ben Mendelsohn as King George VI. There also some other minor roles such as Ronald Pickup as Neville Chamberlain and Stephen Dillane as Lord Halifax.

The film expresses Churchills personality very well and you forget that he is Prime Minister as the film portrays him as a man who is trying to do what is best for the people. The film also as a lot of good moments between Churchill and Layton as they both trust each other and become good friends by the end of the movie.

What I found that was interesting was that no one believed that Churchill would be good and would resign leading to a vote of no confidence to do the peace talks, Once that looks like it will happen Churchill strikes back by talking to Parliament saying that England 'will never surrender' which leads both sides to agree and the rest is history.

I would give Darkest Hour a 10/10 good performances throughout which made the film enjoyable to watch.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi Review

Hi everyone happy new year,

I know it's been a while since I have reviewed a film as per usual but I thought I'd start up again by doing the latest addition to the Star Wars Saga (if it's still called that). This movie has had many good reviews calling it the "Best Star Wars yet", the audience, however, are debating if the film is good or that its bad. People have been calling it bad due it being more of an end of a trilogy than a sequel. So without a further doubt let's continue with the review.

The film takes place a few minutes after the Force Awakens and the Resistance are desperately escaping the clutches of the First Order. As the Resistance are about to finish there evacuation the First Order have found them and start to wipe them from Existence. On the other side of the Galaxy Rey (Daisy Ridley) has found the location of Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) on the island of Ahch-To where there was once a Jedi Temple until destroyed by Ben Solo or as he is known Kylo Ren (Adam Driver). After being tracked through light speed the Resistance are trying desperately to find a new base without being stopped by General Hux (Domhnall Gleeson) and the First Order. Poe (Oscar Isaacs) has a plan to get someone to stop the First Order from tracking them by shutting the core down on Supreme Leader Snoke's (Andy Serkis) star destroyer. Finn (John Boyega) and a new character named Rose (Kelly Marie Tran)  go to a planet called Canto Bite where they find a hacker named DJ (Benicio Del Toro) who help them on to the star destroyer before betraying them for an award. The plan fails so the Resistance evacuates to a planet called Crait where they hide until Rey comes back to help fight and get them out of the First Order's clutches.

That is the whole story of the film. So what did I think of it? I thought it is a pretty decent film, I understand why people hate it as there is a lot of unanswered questions such as Snoke's Identity as he is killed off in his second scene in the flesh. The good things I thought that it had an interesting use of two separate stories that link together at the end, they gave Poe a bigger part as he was forgotten about in the last film, Carrie Fisher had a bittersweet part and also Yoda was back. However, like all films, there are also bad things such as Snoke's part in the whole film, the Canto Bite scene, The fact it had a lot of unnecessary jokes which make it more of a Marvel Movie than a Star Wars Movie, Also Luke's personality and that he shied away from the force. Also an extra mention to the film's ending, the ending is a small child who we saw a scene prior for a second, looking at the resistance leaving through the Millenium Falcon and for some reason he has the force. Why. Rogue One has a more satisfying ending with the Darth Vader scene.

Now there were things that I did find weird in the movie as well one was the blue milk coming out of this seal on the island as it was awkward and added nothing to the plot, C-3PO had a Gold Arm,This is awkward for me it looked like he had a red arm for most of the 30 years before the Force Awakens so the fact that this film takes place literally after the destruction of Star Killer Base why has his arm gone back to gold, Also the falcon wasn't flown with Han Solo as he is mostly with the ship and the fact the character is no longer with was a little bit heartbreaking. But then again the new Solo Movie is coming May this year so we'll see how that will turn out.

But the main question people want an answer to the most is what did I think of the Porg's? Honestly, nothing much they seemed to waste a lot of time that could have been added to certain characters they were good as they had a funny relationship with Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo not Peter Mayhew) also R2-D2 was played by Jimmy Vee as Kenny Baker unfortunately died.

So overall I'd  give the Last Jedi an 8.5/10 good movie, not the best executed.