THE IRON LADY

Made the first step in returning to Chicago today!  Decided to watch THE IRON LADY as well.

Confession: I think Meryl Streep is one of the most overrated actors of all time.

THE IRON LADY: (One and a half out of five stars).

Jim Broadbent is one of the most under-appreciated actors of all time and its through his acting that THE IRON LADY is even watchable.  The rest of the movie bounces between Meryl Streep with bad old age makeup to Meryl Streep being Meryl Streep.  More annoyingly whenever one of the "flashback" scenes starts getting interesting the film cuts away to "flashforward" Meryl Streep who is slowly going insane.

These "future" scenes are the least interesting part of the film and far too much time is spent on them and away from more interesting matters of politics.  And by interesting I mean a paint-by-the-numbers wikipedia entry of Margaret Thatcher's life.

I regret watching this crap.

Film List:
January 1: THERE WILL BE BLOOD (5/5)
January 2: BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (3.5/5)
January 3: THE ARTIST (5/5)
January 4: THE KING'S SPEECH (2.5/5)
January 5: UPSTREAM COLOR (5/5)
January 7: THE PIANIST (4.5/5)
January 8: DRINKING BUDDIES: (4/5)

January 9: THE LONE RANGER: (1/5)

                 FAST & FURIOUS 6: (3/5/5)
January 10: THE IRON LADY (1.5/5)