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.