How sad is this?

Highly Overrated But Still Good

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

The only good things to take away from this film were the performances of Bill Nighy and his agents. It was overly sentimental and the characters had neither chemistry nor believability.

I would love to have given this film a much higher mark, but i felt it missed a golden opportunity to produce a potential classic. It has all the right ingredients, a good likeable cast, a topical subject with the recent films on dunkirk and churchill raising interest in this era, a clever premise of them making a film within a film, and there are some nice lines and good performances (Bill Nighy is excellent as always) but for me they blow it through the death of one of the leading characters. I understand they may have felt they were making a point about war, but for me they were being too clever. A nice happy ending would have left the film as a classic feel good film, like a "local hero", instead of a slightly frustrating one. This is especially annoying as within the film Gemma Artertons character is advised to make sure one of their films has a happy ending. A pity they didn't heed their own advice.

Wartime-set drama (during the Blitz), that's part cap-tip to working women, part acclamation to the power of cinema.Arterton as the lead, Catrin, is hired early on as the sole woman on a small script writing team for the Ministry of Information, looking to the inspire the many at home and Americans abroad into joining the war in one swoop.Arterton is solid enough in her portrayal, and the script nuanced enough to push the stories & plight of women in general with tact -- no grandstanding here -- and she's an entertaining, bright foil to Sam Claflin's lead-writer Buckley.The romantic sub-plots here are a little to predictable, as is the denouement, thought Catrin is interesting enough for these to be passed off as forgivable.The film clearly takes some delight in it's portrayal of old-timey film-making, and the actors working on them (Bill Nighy a deft-hand here as usual).Entertaining, charming stuff here with a nice trim running time and engaging performances. Nothing especially stellar.

I do not know if they tried to do something else. I do not think so. But at least they have managed to make a movie that you see with affection. Gema appears and fills the screen and you follow her to see what happens to her, although you know perfectly how it will end, but the film is credible and that is not all.He takes many things as a caricature and makes them as such but he does them well.The three protagonist actors are great, but the others are also very good. Is that even those who have to fall ill, you like. That is difficult to achieve and get the viewer in your pocket.Costumes, makeup and art are splendid. They manage to get you into that historical moment.Photography is very good, it's very English and that's good. There are moments that bring a lot of light, but at least they are few.The address, although it does not make plans that look nice to me. But at least, it takes the movie well, it does not bore you and it puts you in your pocket. Get you watch the movie and follow it to the end.It's a movie to see the