I saw this on DVD several days ago. I wasn't blown away by it. It was okay, but not much more than a paint-by-numbers entry in the Teacher-and-Student-Form-A-Rapport genre that includes everything from The Miracle Worker to The Karate Kid. We pretty much know how it's going to play out and end, and that's completely aside from the liberties taken with historical fact (Prince Albert began seeing Lionel Logue for his stammer as early as 1926, and began to show improvement within months, in contrast to the film, which shows Logue's treatment of Albert as a frantic solution to the abdication crisis of 1936, which resulted in Albert's reluctant ascendance as King, and required him to perform more crucial public speeches in order to rally England in the face of WWII.)

Even without reading up on the facts after seeing the film, I didn't buy for a second Logue's presumptuous casual address of Albert, which came across more as a result of the film industry's typical depiction of effective teachers as eccentrics.

Another bit that I find to be implausible and a nit: If Albert was capable of effecting such flawless speech by simply wearing earphones playing music while reading off a prepared one, then why didn't they just do that at the end of the film, when he had to deliver that crucial speech rallying England, which he did while in alone in an enclosed room?

This was an okay way to spend a couple of hours, but did not move me in any way close to the way the previous year's Best Picture winner, The Hurt Locker did.