Gary Oldman as Churchill.
Here is my first (but not main) problem with Darkest Hour, a film about Winston Churchill pulling Great Britain from the brink of disaster in the early days of World War II: It’s too long. Everything the film has to say could have been easily and neatly packed into 80 brisk minutes.
We would see the unstoppable Nazis and Great Britain’s defeat at Dunkirk; we would hear from those who want to appease Hitler and from those who do not. Churchill, in the latter group, would have his many enemies in the government and parliament, but he would not be defeated. He would become the prime minister, and the rest would be history. Movie over.
