Darkest Hour was Gary Oldman's greatest acting achievement. Not only did he disappear under all those prosthetics, but everything about Oldman had also disappear.
But unfortunately, there was not a lot of events that happened here that were memorable. Off the top of my head after watching it last week, there was only that scene in the Underground that I can recall immediately.
That and probably the conversation of Winston Churchill and King George VI played by the great Ben Mendelsohn, which again was probably his best performance to date as well.
Lily James played her role adequately but I just could not feel what her character was going through, and Kristin Scott Thomas also did not make that much of an impact as Churchill's wife.
But the cinematography was great with some fantastic location shots. And those scenes done in a very bleak and grey setting represented the narrative at that time well.
The dialogue that drove the exposition always felt natural because it was so well written, but I would still go back to Oldman's performance as he really delivered his lines that made every argument and every conversation felt important.
Even though this was about war, but the war itself was just as a backdrop and here for the first time we got to see who Churchill was and why he was so important and great; and how fortunate the world was to have him at that time.
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