Nice effects though.

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

I started watching it because of its reputation and its cast. I switched it off after half an hour and watched a John Wayne war movie instead because very little happened in "The King's Speech". The dialog, at best, was tepid and the background music was awful.Like other reviewers have noticed, there's a lack of colour. It's as if the budget allowed the set and costume designers to use only blue, black, and brown with a sprinkling of white.And, like other reviewers have commented, the performances were disappointing.I got the impression that whoever approved the production of this film thought that because "Downton Abbey" was a hit, anything that is about the British aristocracy or monarchy would be one as well. It didn't work with me, though. I got bored with DA and stopped watching during its third season. Similarly, I stopped watching "The King's Speech" for the same reason.How this movie managed to win the Best Picture Oscar is a mystery to me.

Movie Review: "The King's Speech" (2010)At a time when radio broadcasts took their stain on newly-created human mass media demands, the radio device as powerful tool of seduction, manipulation and conviction became a worldwide phenomenon in mobilizing populations in a decade of the war-mongering world of late 1930s.Director Tom Hooper, known for the infamous excellent-executed HBO mini-series "John Adams" in season 2007/2008, rules a original script by David Seidler based on true events with pitch-perfect blocking within composing a 1.85:1 aspect ratio wide-screen full-frame, shot on rarely-received, yet visually-convincing 35mm filmstock in extreme-wide lenses of character close-up gripping cinematography by Danny Cohen, when leading actor Colin Firth presents the emphasisms of an over-demanding part of King George VI to full emotional extensions in constant beat work of needle-pin-pointing proportions in gesture and voice supported by fellow acting colleague Geoffrey Rush, performing as light-hearted, leisure-to-relaxation indulging character of Lionel Logue; who then together build one of the most adorable friendships in cinema history, which in its less then 120-minutes-paced editorial by Tariq Anwar can be enjoyed as a timeless piece of motion picture entertainment without losing punch of conviction when an unless fulminate simplistic score by composer Alexandre Desplat steps aside for high-suspense montage of King George VI holding his famous speech onto the nation, declaring War on Nazi-Germany in late 1939 under Ludwig van Beethoven's composition of Symphony VII.The supporting cast organized by long-term Industry-insider Nina Gold brings together the finest actors of a contemporary cinematic landscape including actress Helena Bonham Carter, portraying as Queen Elizabeth in restrainted fashionable royal manners leading her husband, actor Michael Gambon shifting in his range from a visciously-demanding father on Christmas Eve to a dementia-armchair-struck old man as the character of King George V; when actor Guy Pearce shares beats of playboy-maximes-manifesting, younger-brother-pushing King Edward VIII, who eventually lies down his coronation-infested obligations for the life of leisure and bliss at mansion of the Cote d'Azur, when further actor Derek Jacobi completes the circle of supports as king-making, sacred-coronation-chair-guarding Archbishop Cosmo Lang at Westminster Abbey in constant tension-building scenes of rare exception in a classic genre of drama.Director Tom Hooper shows his strengths by pairing dramatic moments as childhood confessions of abuse by King George VI under atmospheric bluish skylight atmosphere in a memorable paint-splintered hide-out room of London surburbias, when suprisingly slight infusions of tasteful comedy, especially in the King's vocal exercise scenes, make this Academy-Award-Winning Best Picture produced by Iain Canning and Emile Sherman at See-Saw-Films a success in every department.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

The King's Speech is a lovely movie that is well worth your time. It could have been terribly plodding and dreary, but the writers inject so much wit and humanity into the story that it keeps you interested and entertained. It's possibly the best (the only?) movie made about public speaking,, and about people who are terrified of it. Despite being a 'nobody' Australian speech therapist, Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush) proves to be the perfect person to treat the stuttering King George (Colin Firth). As an Aussie, super persistent and confident, with an irreverant streak and with decades of experience, Logue is able to deftly analyse George's psychological barriers and figure out hiw to get around them. Rush is typically brilliant in this role, but he's pipped by Colin Firth, for whom the King is the the role of a lifetime. Firth plays him as often whiny and needy. But in the end, unlike his playboy brother Edward (Guy Pearce) he did step up to lead the UK when it needed a steady authority. When the King is walking to the microphone to make his last speech, it's like he's walking to the guillotine. Lionel his therapist really seems to care and is not after some reflected glory. As always, the sign of a good movie is the quality of the supporting cast, and here it's A-grade, including Helena Bonham- Carter as the King's wife, the wonderful Derek Jacobi as the Archbishop, and a sincere Timothy Spall as Winston Churchill.

After seeing "Apartment Zero" and being bowled over again by his amazing performance as the Argentinean pretending to be British, I felt the urge to see "The King's Speech" again - So glad I did. It was very moving to see Adrian Leduc being George VI. What an astonishing actor. In Apartment Zero he creates a character without a personality. A repressed, innocent that comes out as a total weirdo but we know better. His undeclared needs reflected in Colin Firth's eyes are a prodigious acting feast. In The King's Speech, his George VI suffers from a different fear but it's also pungently clear in the actor's eyes. I think what they both share is a desperate wish to be invisible. For King George that's an impossibility so, his struggle to move forward, learning to be the man everyone expects him to be is enormously moving. As you may have guessed, Colin Firth has become one of my favorite actors of all time.