kalle_ankare

It becomes apparent after a very short time of watching this movie that someone has been watching Churchill - the Hollywood years and concluded that albeit the premise is pure genius, taking the real character Winston Churchill, and spinning a completely fabricated and exaggerated yarn around him is a grand idea but that the reason that film is a turd is that it is a comedy. The person in question has then persuaded herself and others that the way to go would have been to remove the comedy and only spin the bullshit yarn and that a new attempt must be made thusly. Somehow someone in the room must have mistakenly pressed the green light button instead of the trap door under her feet, or the alarm that would have had security remove her instantly, and no doubt the rest of the room applauded in sycophantic appreciation. The result is this movie. The whole premise of it, as others have noted, being utter and complete poppycock. May I therefor humbly submit my suggestion for a follow up in which we see Franklin D Roosevelt, played by Sylvester Stallone, deciding he has had enough of this mucking about during the Munich conference in 1938 whereupon he throws off his blanket, jumps out of his wheelchair whilst grabbing an M-16 automatic rifle from a nearby marine and promptly taking the presidential helicopter to Normandy with a bunch of the White House servants, all coincidentally former special forces. Once there they successfully storm the Normandy beaches, defended by Nazi zombies, and thus secure a crucial beach head. They then hold out just long enough for General Patton, portrayed by Jennifer Lopez, to arrive with her underwater tanks and together they take all of Nazi occupied Europe. By this movies standards it too could be billed as based on a true story. Oh, and did I mention that none of the actors look or act even remotely like the historical figures they "portray"? Well, that is only because out of all the wrongs with this movie, that really is quite insignificant... Shame on you, movie makers! Someone could perhaps have interjected in the writing stage of this movies script that incidentally Churchill did not plan or initiate the Gallipoli landings, merely the naval assault that preceded it, but hey, who cares, right?

If you've been longing for a show where all the main characters are unpleasant idiots, then this is the show for you. If, like me, that is not normally what you turn to for entertainment you will be rather disappointed.

Since the things our "protagonists" seem to want are either unclear, revolting or just plain stupid, it's also boring beyond belief. They say Martin Scorsese directed the pilot but after watching it I'm convinced they just made that up, or he phoned it in from a mobile with very bad connection. The odd thing is that the only people you care for, and would be more than happy to follow as protagonists, are the bit parts. For some reason someone decided it would be a good idea to not follow them, but instead the psychopaths that in any other movie or TV-series would be the antagonists or villains.

Being an optimist I kept hoping throughout the pilot that they would get a bullet right in the face, all of them, but alas that never happened. Why anyone cared to put what is clear to be a good amount of cash into this drivel is beyond me. Just to think what a great series could have been made with the period and subject makes me sick. Your time will be better spent bringing out your turntable and listening to some old vinyl.