Splendid cornucopia

To be honest, I almost stopped watching this, but I felt compelled to finish it solely for the reason it's a Mike Leigh film. He's done so many awfully brilliant pieces in the past, so I kind of rode on those coattails. Not that there's a whole lot of wrong here - in fact, a terrific 18th century period piece of England - but the story of painter J. M. W. Turner is frustratingly boring.