B. O. R. I. N. G.
And not at all about the creation/writing of "Amazing Grace" (as the tag line--"Behind the song you love is a story you will never forget"--title and previews indicated). It's about the main character's crusade against the British slave trade. The only connection to the song is that his childhood pastor was once a slave trader but quit, repented, and went into the clergy then wrote the song about what a horrible man he was/is. But the song writing was years before the action of the movie (no flashbacks or real attention paid to his story) and has nothing to do with anything really. The pastor and his whole story could be taken out of the film with no real consequence.
Meanwhile, the whole abolitionist plot is boring. Put me to sleep boring.
And, oddly, two of the supporting actors here (Romola Garai playing Barbara Spooner and Benedict Cumberbatch as William Pitt) are also in Atonement (Briony at 18 and Paul Marshall, respectively).
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