YMMV / Brexit: The Uncivil War

• Adorkable: For an otherwise very rude and unpleasant guy, Cummings' utter glee at seeing the giant tour bus that Vote Leave has gotten to give speeches to their supporters, complete with doing a little dance, makes him seem downright dorky and even serves as a little bit of a humanizing moment for him.
• Anvilicious: Manipulative PR tactics that appeal to emotion rather than reasoned and nuanced discussion are a bad thing, and the film is not at all subtle in its condemnation of them. While very few people would dispute that this moral is a valid one, the film acting like these tactics are the reason the Leavers won rather than because of any actual merit to their arguments is likely to rub some viewers the wrong way.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Early on while speaking to the audience, Cummings mentions that they live in a multiverse of different branches of history, and that in some branches, things might've gone very differently. Three years later, Benedict Cumberbatch would deal with The Multiverse much more directly.
  • Simon Paisley Day, who plays UKIP MP Douglas Carswell, was later cast as Dominic Cummings in This England.
• Jerkass Woobie: The people in the dying town express some anger at immigrant workers costing them employment. But given that the man they interview has been stripped of a job after 20 years, the woman breaks down quickly in tears for the state of the town, and the fact that it has been 30 years since anyone from a political party has even visited their town, you can understand their anger and despair.
• One-Scene Wonder: The woman who has a breakdown at one of Remain's focus groups uses her only scene and few minutes of screentime to deliver the film's most emotionally impactful and memorable scene due to how heartbreaking her breakdown is.
• Questionable Casting: A common first reaction to seeing Cummings played by Cumberbatch, Gove by Oliver Maltman, and specially Johnson by the much younger Richard Goulding (though this is almost immediately followed by a comment that Goulding nails Johnson's voice).
• Spiritual Successor: This England, a similarly critical 2022 miniseries about Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings reacting to the early days of the COVID-19 Pandemic, also starring a famous British actor uglied with prosthetics to play a political figure he doesn't really resemble anyway (Kenneth Branagh as Johnson, in this case). It even starts with them celebrating the final passage of Brexit before things go sour. On a meta level, both productions were so rushed as to immediately become unintentional period pieces by their main characters turning out worse than their critics anticipated: Brexit is framed around a then future 2020 in which Cummings remains an obscure figure, missing the Pandemic and scandal about him flaunting isolation guidelines, while This England ends with Johnson angrily dressing down Cummings and refusing to help him out, missing Johnson's own flaunting of guidelines and resignation for the "Partygate" scandal.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The film interprets Dominic Cummings as an obscure but influential player in the Leave campaign who will remain unknown to the public. After the film's release, Cummings would make headlines with multiple scandals during the COVID-19 Pandemic.^note These include reportedly breaking lockdown restrictions to visit Barnard Castle in April 2020, and criticizing the government's pandemic response after leaving Parliament the following November.

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