As anyone else seen this movie?
Brain Cox plays the titular character in the period immediately before D-Day. I thought it would be a good companion piece to Ike: Countdown to D-day, with Tom Selleck.
I went in with no information. I didn’t even know it was Brain Cox playing Churchill - since they have no opening cast credits, it took me half the film to recognize his voice.
I thought it was a good film, and Cox did a great job. My complaint is that it appears to be whatever the opposite of a hagiography is - Churchill is portrayed as inept and wrong and just simply a tired old guy still fighting the last war, a guy who is simply “in the way”. I kept waiting for Churchill to do something to show he still had it, but that never came.
There’s a scene where is is literally praying for rain, so as to cancel D-day (which he was afraid would be another Gallipoli). To me, it was never shown that Churchill might just have a different, educated, opinion. No, Churchill was portrayed as absolutely wrong.
Instead of him realizing that Ike and Monty knew what they were doing, the King had to tell him personally to step aside, to be basically a cheerleader. They just gave Winnie a cookie and a pat on the head, and sent him to bed. “Let the adults talk.” I’ll have to rewatch, but I don’t remember Chruchill being treated so poorly in Ike: CtD-D.
But, as a study of a once-powerful man, diminished by what might be undiagnosed bipolar disorder, it isn’t a bad film. 
And James Purefoy as George VI was great.
