Saw Dunkirk and Darkest Hour.
Dunkirk was good. Darkest Hour was EXCELLENT. With Churchill as Trump. His own party was trying to defeat his every movie.
Highly recommend by Vaquero. 5 asterisks. *****. If Gary Oldman doesn’t get the lead actor Oscar … it’s political.
I had the same thought about Darkest Hour and Tump and Churchill. When Churchill asked the King if he(Churchill frightened him. The king said yes, because he didn’t know what was going to come out of Churchill’s mouth next. No-one liked Churchill because he was “rude” and did not have diplomacy. But he was successful in the end.
They also did a good job of showing the pressure of making a deal with Hitler before Dunkirk.
Oldman seemed to embody Churchill.
I thought so, too. I received the Blu-ray which I had pre-ordered on Tuesday, but I did see it in a theater. It was interesting that the movie only concentrated on the weeks in which Britain had to choose between a dishonorable peace with Hitler and fighting a war against overwhelming odds. This period of about a month or so is really the critical point of Churchill's entire career.
There have been some excellent TV depictions of Churchill, such as Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years with Robert Hardy and The Gathering Storm with Albert Finney. However, those depictions all stopped at about the time Churchill became First Lord of the Admiralty. So, one can watch those productions first for more background, and then watch Darkest Hour as a sequel.