Some may find it hard to believe, but I’ve never watched Downton Abbey, and so my credulity was not stretched in seeing Hugh Bonneville play Lord Mountbatten in this film. I would have scoffed at Gillian Anderson’s cut-glass accent too, until I remembered the sound of Queen Elizabeth’s piping and flutey voice when she first took the throne.
This is a very pro-Mountbatten film, which portrays him as the unwilling pawn of dastardly Colonial Office operators. The story of the partition of India is big enough in itself that it didn’t need the Romeo-and-Juliet story amongst the two younger characters superimposed onto it. Still, if you stick around for the credits at the end of the film, it’s perhaps not as far-fetched as I thought.
Good, but the book Midnight’s Children was better!
My rating: 3.5 stars
The Resident Judge of Port Phillip 
Midnight’s Children will always be better than pretty much anything! But this was an entertaining movie and more convincingly acted than I thought it would be.
Yes, it was pro-Mountbatten, but I wonder if some of the ‘new’ information revealed in the movie was thanks to the 50 yr rule?