Friday, September 22, 2006

All the King's Men

The saddest element of this story is not the yarn about the potential fall from grace through politics, but rather the splendid cast wasted on a story that plods excruiatingly slow. I witnessed at least a dozen movie-goers walking out halfway, and the man behind me snoring did not help matters much.

I give kudos to the actors who did a wonderful job on a very weak screenplay. Scenes of the post-depression era were depicted very realistic; you could almost smell the desperation and poverty. However, the relationships between characters were not clear at times and I wished I had subtitles to understand Sean Penn's accent from time to time.

Overall, it was disappointing.

Rating: 2 out of 10
by Red Rob, the Guest Critic

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