Pun Salad

Our Christmas movie this year was this story of William Wilberforce and his decades-long effort to ban the slave trade in the British Empire. Mr. Fantastic himself, Ioan Gruffudd, plays Wilberforce.

The movie occasionally lapses into the worst habit of biopics: using wooden dialog as exposition. The characters sound as if they're reading from Wikipedia

It's OK, though, and gets an extra half-star in my book for its explicit inclusion of evangelical Christianity as cornerstone of Wilberforce's character and actions. Albert Finney has a small but powerful role as John Newton, former slave-ship captain turned Anglican priest, writer of the hymn Amazing Grace.