It's a slow, talky piece, with a couple of memorable action moments, but with spotty acting, weird make - up, poor cast chemistry, and an ever - increasing sense of goofiness, this is far from the kind of movie that could have thrust Burt back into
the limelight as a movie star again.
A big budget
movie with a heart, Tom Hooper's period drama
starred Colin Firth
as Bertie Windsor, Edward VII's painfully shy younger brother who's thrust into the
limelight when his brother abdicates to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson in 1936.