2019 Directed by Toby Haynes
Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day.
Benedict Cumberbatch Rory Kinnear John Heffernan Oliver Maltman Richard Goulding Simon Paisley Day Lee Boardman Lucy Russell Paul Ryan Kyle Soller Liz White Tim Steed Kate O'Flynn Nicholas Day Tim McMullan Richard Durden Gavin Spokes Ronak Patani Mary Antony Neal Barry Sophie Stanton Henrietta Clemett Aden Gillett Annabelle Dowler Gabriel Akuwudike John Arthur Rakie Ayola Jay Simpson Heather Coombs Show All…
Brexit, Brexit - The Uncivil War
no need for letterboxd to list the cast for this cuz we're all the cast of this bloody shitshow arent we
always wanted to see Benedict Cumberbatch play a boring asshole who's uninterestingly in charge of every situation
This movie features:
1) Suicide Squad style introductions (complete with the world's cheapest looking slap-on text effect) for all the main characters.
2) A scene where Benedict Cumberbatch drinks out a empty cup but pretends that it is full
3) The serious use of the word "circlejerk"
4) A scene where Bumblebee Cabbagepatch gets the core message of the Leave campaign from a expectant fathers guide to pregnancy book.
5) 3 tracks from the Windows movie maker sound library
...and much more
In other words, this movie is trash. But at least it's memorably terrible. Good job movie!
TL;DR: Somehow not a Netflix original.
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For any rational person who has had to live through this utter diabolical nonsense for the last two years will find zero enjoyment in Brexit: An Uncivil War. A laughably inadequate pantomime production and a sizeable underwhelming bore compared to likes of The Tale, Sunset Limited and My Dinner With Hervè that HBO have released in recent years.
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Grim. Let's go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint and wait for all of this to blow over 🍻
Fuck Brexit.
Say what you will about Brexit (I’m still confused about its actual effects to be honest) but I love watching genius semi-assholes blaze trails and counter ”let’s do what we’ve always done” with ”I’m gonna upheave everything and don’t give a fuck about your self-serving protests”, making me feel like the dumbest person on Earth in the process. Benedict Cumberbatch possesses such stellar versatility that he can disappear into any role, much like his name can disappear into any egg-related brunch dish.
Tolle Satire, wenn es nicht so traurig und wahr wäre. "Brexit" interessiert sich nicht nur dafür, wie die "Leave"-Kampagne das britische Volk in den Brexit manövriert hat, sondern auch für die Gründe dahinter, warum das britische Volk überhaupt für diese Art von politischer Manipulation so empfänglich war.
Die treibenden Kräfte hinter dem Brexit werden als gewissenlose Egoschweine porträtiert, während auch die Fehler und Fahrlässigkeiten der "Stay"-Kampagne beleuchtet werden. Die Rolle von Cambridge Analytica und AggregateIQ beim Brexit wird ebenfalls thematisiert, sodass "Brexit" meines Wissens nach der erste Film ist, der die Auswirkungen und Manipulationsmöglichkeiten durch Targeted Ads in der politischen Meinungsbildung thematisiert. Das ist insbesondere deshalb spannend, weil der Hauptinvestor von Cambridge Analytica auch einer der Geldgeber von Breitbart News…
What a truly is a terrifying work of fiction, glad this will never happen...
Putting my personal political views aside and focusing solely on this as a film; it has a wickedly inticing fast pace and great direction & visual style to match.
Cumberbatch steals every scene he’s in and I don’t think the film would have had as much of an impact if it wasn’t for his lead performance.
Covering a terrifying time in modern global politics, you truly could not make this up with shocking moments that you don’t want to believe are fact.
Obviously feels unfinished due to the ever changing climate of reality but for a film that was seemingly rushed out to be topical, its unexpectedly very well made.
"To take something back means it was, is, rightfully yours, taken from you. So much of our understanding of who we are comes from this nostalgic view we have of our past. These stories, these myths we tell each other. Normally, I hate them, they stop me from progressing, but, in this case, let's use it. The idea that we want to return to a time when we knew our place. When things made sense, fictional or not."
"It's perfect. Better start taking it back."
I have never been too interested with foreign politics, particularly in one of the EU's biggest member state that is the UK. So, I have to set aside my limited views towards the whole context…
'All I hear is noise' - Stringynoodle Cabbagepatch, 2020 (whilst doing an awful impersonation of an awful politician)
This was, to say the least, an irritating movie. It starts off as an absolutely tone-deaf comedy, that feels like watching a car crash - it is horrible and real people suffer, but you can't help but look at the awful editing, the terrible clichéd characters that do not resemble their real-life counterparts (just look at Johnson) and the music choices out of hell. It is fun for a while if you ignore the fact that Brexit was a thing that really happened and is a pay-off for twelve years of Thatcher neoliberalism and Euroscepticism from the far-right that was not met with the right anger as it should have been. And now we have Cumberbatch playing the character he…
I very much enjoyed this fictional story of a Machiavellian genius manipulating British democracy with statistics and ushering in an era of politics that focusses on emotion and narrative rather than reason. Glad it’s only a film, otherwise that would be really depressing. Only criticism would be how it suggests that Britain has an underbelly of racism pervading the entire country, when I’m pretty sure Boris told us a few weeks ago that we’re a model of how race relations should look, and I don’t think he’d lie...??
Interesting movie, although boring sometimes. I still loved seeing Benedict Cumberbatch in this movie
A disturbingly accurate and revealing character study of the UK and modern politics
A string of exhaustion and dread runs through this film. Effectively done and Benedict Cumberbatch plays a Dominic Cummings with a Dr Strange-esque powerfulness. While the character certainly isn't likeable, he is made out to be some sort of political superhero.
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This is a brilliant insight into the Brexit events from start to the loose finish involving stories from nearly everyone involved. The impersonations of the political leaders in this movie was excellent and majority of them you could tell who they where without the need for the film to explain. After viewing this movie I will have to reward it 3.5/5 stars.
I enjoyed this. Very watchable and interesting reflection on Brecht and the change in politics that Brexit and then trump have created. Cumberbach’s accent was v good
I still don't know how Dominic Cummings looks in real life.
Maybe you shouldn't make a film about something that still is going on in some capacity, still is being investigated. And maybe you shouldn't make the bad guy the Fleabag-like narrator, yes, I know he's played by Benedict Cumberbatch and you want to get the most from your money (and hiring Cumberbatch must have cost quite a lot), still a bad idea.
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