Great performances, especially from Timothy Spall, and delightfully not one terrible supporting role. Entirely believable all along. I wasn't even too disappointed in the one dream sequence..
Well filmed and each individual scene well edited, but... the entire film gets lost in the flaw of the typical biopic: too wide ranging. Trying to cover too much of the original topic, the story ends up a series of vignettes, hamhandedly points out key moments in history, gets unfocused and it had to go out of it's way to explicitly bring up the point they were getting to.
There were some great stories in here, and I have to believe they could have narrowed it to just, say, the moral conflict that emerges after the Tish "job."
Well filmed and each individual scene well edited, but... the entire film gets lost in the flaw of the typical biopic: too wide ranging. Trying to cover too much of the original topic, the story ends up a series of vignettes, hamhandedly points out key moments in history, gets unfocused and it had to go out of it's way to explicitly bring up the point they were getting to.
There were some great stories in here, and I have to believe they could have narrowed it to just, say, the moral conflict that emerges after the Tish "job."