The Iron Lady

Down with Labor! The Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher, who was British PM from 1979 to 1990, was a great woman that never took no for an answer.

The movie however was for all intents and purposes, was a poorly fleshed out biopic.

While Meryl Streep definitely deserved to win the best actress category at the Oscars, the movie was far too short to encapsulate the life of someone, who should be a role model to both male and female alike.

The movie focused far too much on her as an old woman with dementia, mourning the loss of her husband, and far too little time focusing on the great things she did for the British people during her time in office. Literally half the movie was shot from her current dementia state, which is totally unbecoming for someone of her caliber.

While she had the chutzpah to stand up to Union leaders, Argentine generals, and the Soviet Union; Hollywood diminished her image in this quasi-biopic film, which felt more like a slap in the face of one of the West’s leading personalities, and less like the historical biopic film it should have been.

I give it 2.6 protesters signs out of 5, almost entirely due to the writing and disjointed nature of what should have been a straightforward biopic.