I was blown away by The King's Speech when I saw it at the London Film Festival back in October, so much so I wanted to see it again.
Now my first attempt at a second viewing didn't go so well. I'd book to see a preview with a director's Q&A at the Curzon, only I went to the wrong cinema. It was an diary accident waiting to happen (my combined film and theatre viewing totalled more than 150 last year) but hopefully won't happen again for at least a year.
Anyway, my second attempt was more successful and even though I have already posted my thoughts it is technically a 2011 release, so I wanted to mark it as such with a few words and an official Rev Stan score.
So what can I say about it? Well, it more than lived up to my first review. It is a warm, moving and funny film that succeeds in showing the human side of royalty. As I was leaving the cinema I could have quite happily bought a ticket for the next screening and gone straight back in.
Colin Firth has already got 14 best actor awards for it and I hope the supporting cast gets the recognition it deserves too, particularly Geoffrey Rush.
The critics seem to love it too:
Rotten Tomatoes UK gives it 95% from 174 reviews and it has an average user rating of 8.6/10
Metacritic gives it 88% from 41 reviews with an average user rating of 8.7/10.
And Rev Stan gives it 95% - it loses 5% because of the odd choice of Guy Pearce playing Colin Firth's older brother or am I the only one who finds that odd?
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