Bobby
We’re talking wicked cast. Stacked. But unfortunately there’s roughly three that are worth their checks. For the record those three are Hopkins, Macy, and Shia [[only cause this kid is fucking hilarious]]. The rest are the typical piles of ridiculous that you see padding decent scripts. I’m curious how Estevez has that sort of pull in a town such as this. The kid had to change his name when he had a sweet dad and a clinical brother. But i guess as a dramatic debut it’s not too bad. The problem lies in that i know where he was trying to go and he never really made it. Sort of like a father before he realizes he swings and throws like a girl.
The story itself has a lot behind it. It’s based on the people involved in the shooting that resulted in the untimely death of the other Kennedy. It traces the activities of these people, including a campaign helper and some folk working at the hotel. It all takes place the day of the shooting. It’s relatively well done, but what it tries to do is apparently too lofty. It wants real bad to be the type of movie that makes the viewer think hard and portray the dramatic representation of the sentiments of the period. It does this to a point because it describes pretty well the feelings and attitudes that were saturating the culture at the time. There should just be more.
The stories are sort of dry. I didn’t find myself getting into most of them. So much is packed into the storylines that it’s tough to really feel for them. I get into movies more than i should, always have, but at the same time this one didn’t hit home. I actually cashed out for a bit. They’re interesting, but they’re also painfully predictable. The only reason i didn’t try to foresee the ending was that I’m not a big enough student of history to know who was involved in that’s nights proceedings. I didn’t have the prerequisite knowledge to know who was who and yet it didn’t mean i didn’t have a pretty strong idea by the half as to what would be going down.
The acting was sub-par for the duration with only a few exceptions. The three above with the addition of Sheen [[and he’s not on the first because they didn’t even use him enough]]. His interaction with Hunt was poignant and strong. The rest were trite and forced. I mean for shit’sake you can’t have a believable interaction with a chick that shows the beav on film and another that does it frequently for free.
The directing was at least decent enough that i didn’t notice any glaring issues. The interplay of file footage was done well up until the last half hour. The appearances were quality as to period garb and settings and other such things.
Ultimately this just had so much room to grow. The storylines could have been broadened or at least made less obvious and the acting choices should have been better. This was a movie based on the unfortunate death of probably the last politician who could have made a difference. It needed to be strong and thoughtful. It attempted to draw parallels to current situations, but those connections are already obvious to anyone who’s not an avid Faux News viewer.
It’s just a series of unfulfilled promises that ring of organized religion.
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