Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

grandmabrat Sometimes a movie should be about the person, not the history. That is what a lot of people are missing. This is a unique chance to make a movie about someone well known who has dementia and how it might manifest itself in them. We saw Margaret as a politician, but not as a person who had trials of her own. I disliked her politics and really didn't want her policies lauded and praised, but it was interesting to see the woman herself.

Leofwine_draca THE IRON LADY is an ultimately disappointing biopic of the female Conservative prime minister and the fault lies almost entirely with the screenplay. For some reason, the decision was made to set the film at the end of Thatcher's life, when she was beset by dementia and constantly hallucinating and remembering better days. The genuinely good bits are all shown in flashbacks chronicling her rise to power and the major events of her leadership. I found the whole dementia plotting to be more than a little distasteful and unnecessary; it gets repetitive after a while and doesn't really add anything to the story. It's a shame that nobody can tell their stories in a simple chronological way anymore. As for Meryl Streep, she gets the accent spot on for the most part, but looks nothing like Thatcher and feels very hollow inside. The distracting old age prosthetics don't help much either. The actress playing the young version is much more convincing. The supporting cast are great too but have oh-so-little to contribute here.

moonspinner55 Meryl Streep in her Oscar-winning turn as Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), the longest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, who, after winning the 1979 general election after serving as Secretary of State for Education and Science in former Prime Minister Edward Heath's Cabinet, led the Conservative Party with a iron fist--teacup often in hand. Handsome, commanding film, complete with wistful remembrances from old age and the ghost of Margaret's deceased husband Denis (Jim Broadbent), puts a great deal of responsibility on Streep's shoulders, yet she carries the role off with aplomb. Director Phyllida Lloyd and screenwriter Abi Morgan are not afraid of using humor to tell Thatcher's story--and, conversely, they do not shy away from Thatcher's controversial political decisions, her impatient manner, persnickety stubbornness and unflappable nature while facing her many judges and adversaries. All involved have done a great deal of study here, and Lloyd is effective in making the elderly Thatcher a sympathetic woman full of memories who nevertheless will not go quietly into the night. The balance here--the despised woman and the headstrong lady leader who abhorred weakness--is carefully weighed. While the film isn't intrinsically exciting as an entertainment, it is a sterling showcase for its leading lady. **1/2 from ****

studioAT While I cannot fault at all the performance given by Meryl Streep as Thatcher, this film is not the tribute that the great lady (whatever your political view) deserved.It's ploddy, it's weakly scripted in places, and I was disappointed it took the direction of showing Thatcher as being fail and looking back, which is an overused device.Much like Helen Mirren in 'The Queen' it is Streep's performance that carried the film from start to finish, though Jim Broadbent does well as her husband.A decent film that could and should've been better.