I am gobsmacked that this film has had any positive reviews.
To address such a weighty subject with such a clunky, facile and condescending script is a terrible waste. I honestly think some of the (great) actors looked at embarrassed at some of the lines they had to deliver.
At one point, Lord Mountbatten, having accepted the role of becoming Viceroy, packed his bags, flown out to India and been installed into his residence is told by his new colleagues that there is (I am paraphrasing only slightly) "unrest between the Hindus and the Muslims and maybe we should consider partition". If Hugh Bonneville had turned round and said "Well, Durr!" I would have whooped with joy.
And don't get me started on the crassest denouement imaginable to the sub-plot..
To address such a weighty subject with such a clunky, facile and condescending script is a terrible waste. I honestly think some of the (great) actors looked at embarrassed at some of the lines they had to deliver.
At one point, Lord Mountbatten, having accepted the role of becoming Viceroy, packed his bags, flown out to India and been installed into his residence is told by his new colleagues that there is (I am paraphrasing only slightly) "unrest between the Hindus and the Muslims and maybe we should consider partition". If Hugh Bonneville had turned round and said "Well, Durr!" I would have whooped with joy.
And don't get me started on the crassest denouement imaginable to the sub-plot..