Keira Knightley shone in this retelling of Katherine Gun’s story although it felt more suited to be a TV-movie than a straight up film. Mrs Gun’s story was unknown to me and so it was rather interesting, but for someone familiar to the leak and controversial, Gavin Hood’s execution of the film could seem a bit rote and by-the-numbers. However, Knightley sold her role and saved the story. It was one of her least showy roles, but yet it still retained a lot of her signature emotional beats. She made Mrs Gun’s motives appear unforced and grounded in realism, and not staged and falsely/cinematic altruistic. Ralph Fiennes portrayed her lawyer Ben Emmerson and he equaled Knightley in terms of passion and conviction. Matt Smith, Matthew Goode and Rhys Ifans rounded up the cast and they were competent although Ifans tended to overact and chew as usual.
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