CHURCHILL DVD

Historians say this movie is a “perverse fantasy" and "a monstrous twisting of the truth and leads the audience down a road of lies". Google it.I rented the wrong Churchill movie. Gary Oldman is not in this one.This movie would have us believe Churchill was senile. And that Eisenhower was glib and snotty to the PM. Was Churchill completely unfamiliar with D-Day planning four days before the event and did he frantically attempt to rearrange Ike's and Monty's plans? Did Churchill's staff discuss his senility behind his back? So much in this movie is grating. In this movie, Eisenhower is a tiny little man and Montgomery is fat. John Slattery, playing Ike, seems to have ad libbed all his lines using modern surfer slang.

I love Brian Cox, but of all the WSC movies I have seen, the story line in this movie and the portrayal of the people involved... I am not all that sure is very accurate. It seems to be the director's "interpretation" and "literary license" of how they think things happened. Casting was a miss too. I didn't buy DDE character, et. al. I was very saddened by this version and this movie will only gather dust on my shelf. I so look forward to WSC movies and this is my first major disappointment, Brian Cox notwithstanding.

Great cast, but absolute garbage! Lies and fake history! Bought this, but I'm going to delete this from my library. Would have done better if I would have flushed my money down the drain. Easiest way to describe my viewing experience is to relate walking on the side walk in the hot summer and stepping on something an irresponsible pet owner didn't pickup

Listen to others who have reviewed this... complete rewrite of history. Churchill is NOT the bumbling fool shown here opposing Operation Overlord \ Operation Neptune.Do yourself a favor and rent \ buy "The Gathering Storm" and "Into The Storm" about Churchill and WWII.

This must have been PC history from a poor director-lots of flaws. Eisenhower: look at the shameful way he wore his uniform. Approaching Eisenhower's HQ with only a couple guards, not realistic as is Churchill walking alone in a beach unguarded, and a English beach to boot with no sign of England's protection of the shore line. Not so. Churchill was a great man but this whole movie making bunch was truly out to lunch.

I really wanted to enjoy this movie, being a WWII history enthusiast. But it’s fabricated nonsense. Very disappointing.

It cannot be denied; Sir Winston Churchill is certainly a Titan of the 20th Century; it could credibly be argued that he single-handedly saved England and Great Britain in the dark days of World War II. I bought four DVDs on the subject, this one, in which you will see a different Sir Winston, a seriously-fearful, concerned leader, unwilling, unable to relinquish the fate of his England to the upstart, Ike. Because we have the benefit of knowing that D-Day worked, that it was not the disaster Sir Winston feared, we can be excused of not sharing his trepidation. But, to truly understand the point this movie makes, you have, somehow, to 'not know' what happened beginning on June 6, 1944.

Bad history. Don't recommend it at all. See Darkest Hour. That movie, though not perfect, is truer to what happened. That said, the movie was well acted. If you want merely to be entertained it is okay, sort of. I strongly recommend against this movie. I easily see why Darkest Hour was much more favorably reviewed.

Frankly boring. The attempt to make a 90 minute film out of the disputed claim that Churchill opposed Overlord and tried to scupper it fails as history and as entertainment. Of course the plan was debated - the people responsible would have been fools not to consider the consequences of failure. That's all the film has - and spins itself out with a lot of Churchill walking on the beaches (!) and no sign of traps or barbed wire. Abysmal.

There are two Churchill films. This ISN'T the decent one. The Telegraph says Brian Cox "dazzles". He doesn't. He fizzles. The only character here who feels remotely real is Miranda Richardson as Clemmie. Everyone else is lacking.Ostensibly, this tells the tale of the run-up to D-Day. Unfortunately, as with the acting, it feels wooden, artificial. Churchill (I'm not an expert, but I know too much about the self-serving, narcissistic twit to have voted him "Man of the Millennium") was a complex & mercurial character. A cry-baby? That's how Cox makes him feel, especially at the climax with his nearly-in-tears wailing of "Cancel it or it'll be Gallipoli again".Richardson apart, there's little about this entire film that feels true-to-life, real, or believable. In fact, much of the "fact" is nothing but fiction, as several other reviewers will tell you at length! In short, if you want a portrayal of Churchill, buy the Oldman one. That's full of holes too, but it's twice what this is, and Oldman's Churchill is by far superior.

Simply ridiculous. Who was this fiasco funded by momentum? It matters not how many props surround the main character this remains a pastiche, a pale imitation of the honourable gentleman which it fails, abysmally, to portray. Brian Cox, a national socialist, playing Sir Winston Churchill?...has a Scottish accent which he cannot hide nor alter. He does not, remotely, resemble the great figure he is attempting, unsuccessfully, to portray. Mr Churchill had great gravitas this film does not. One can most certainly drape a pig in lingerie, and yet...it will, undeniably, remain... a pig. This is the lying, left wing, liberal propaganda machine in full flight attempting to rewrite history and failing miserably. Enough said.

Not the one I thought it would be, it was a present for somebody, and they were gracious enough to say they enjoyed it, and it was not until later in the shop that I saw the latest one, and realised they had the wrong one. Not a fan, will try and see the one I wanted in the first place later .

I had been waiting a while to see this film and I wasn’t disappointed. Delivery was quick and the film was well packed.The film itself was absorbing. The characters and events are well known to me but it was a fascinating insight into Churchill’s life.The acting was excellentHighly recommended.