Despite its critical acclaim, the entertainment value of this movie was comparable to watching CSPAN or some other bland news channel.

It’s absolutely mind-blowing to me that it ever won an Oscar over Inception. The movie begins when Firth’s character, a prince in line for the throne after the death of his father and the resignation of his older brother, seeks help from the most esteemed speech therapists in all of England in attempt to correct a stammer that he developed as a young boy.

The rest of the movie follows him in his therapy to be able to give live speeches in front of an audience of thousands.

The movie contains an all-star line-up of British actors including Derek Jacobi, who is known for playing Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series, Helena Bonham Carter, known for her role as Bellatrix in Harry Potter, Geoffrey Rush, who played numerous roles including Barbosa in Pirates of the Caribbean, and Colin Firth, taking the lead role and best actor for The King’s Speech. Firth plays the historically accurate King George VI, known to the audience as “Berty”, who overcomes stammering in his impromptu succession of the throne, providing the bulk of the entertainment for the movie while still remaining a bland humorless character.

The plot curve was as much of a flat line as the response of the audience when the movie was finished.

There were few climaxes or rising action to keep viewers on the edge of their seat, and any humor used to keep me distracted from the historic bore of a movie was dark and dry, hardly provoking a viewer such as myself to as much as smirk. Overall, it resembled more of a documentary than a classic film.

The only acceptable reason for why The King’s Speech won Best Picture was because of its impressive list of big name actors, its historical accuracy, and the number of years it’s been in the making, which is rumored to be over 20.

However, at multiple points the entertainment value was so poor, the only motivation I had to keep watching was so I could think of legitimate reasons to persuade people from watching it.

Regardless of the awards and overseas critical acclaim, to the standard American this story has the entertainment value of a rock, but a very sophisticated rock, that speaks in a British accent.

The historical importance of this movie only fits the small niche of British and British-American citizen, and means nothing to your average American.

Therefore, I recommend that unless you want your family members to feel you don’t love them, don’t purchase this movie for them.

As a matter of fact, it’s not even worth borrowing from a friend, if anything they’d be trying to get rid of it.

This movie was a waste of three hours of my life that I’ll , regretfully, never get back. Dont make the same mistake.