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*1/2 (out of ****) Not as good as "JFK." I call bollocks on this movie. Well-meaning bollocks perhaps, but still bollocks. Yes, maybe I come from a generation in which the death of a president is the same as any other person getting shot on TV. But still. In the hotel on the night RFK met his maker, people stand around and talk and DEAR GOD how they do nothing but exposit. It's "Crash" for 2006. Director Estevez isn't half-bad when it comes to handling space, but his script is nothing but speechifying, monologues, dramatic showdowns, syrupy nobility, "moments," and resolutions without motivation. Couples of various sorts are introduced, paired off, given their conflicts, then given resolutions. Labored, contrived, obvious – even if the movie's message about "what might have been" is usually something I like. Not offensive, just dull. Granted, I was doing something else at the same time I watched it. But still. Copyright © 2011, 2007 by Peter Kovic (aka Friday + Saturday Night Movie Critic) 116 min, R Directed + co-written by Emilio Estevez, starring Harry Belafonte, Anthony Hopkins, William H. Macy, Martin Sheen, and Helen Hunt. |
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