Review: Frost/Nixon

I've never been big on 70's politics, always found it a depressing era with everyone moaning about something but I actually enjoyed the film and it gave me a better idea of what went on.
Having said that, I had a couple of gripes with it. For 90% of the time I really didn't find myself cheering anyone on. On one side you have a shallow, ignorant egomaniac, pursuing money but way out of his depth who very nearly wasted the opportunity of a lifetime while selling the American public down the river and on the other, you have Nixon, arrogant, self-righteous and full of bravado. It's actually only their respective backups who you feel for, each trying to protect what they stand for.
My main problem however is the last 10 minutes when it finally does feel like Ritchie Cunningham comes down on the side of the president, trying to elicit sympathy for a broken lonely man. Langella in this case does not help matters with his HoundDog expression and as good as he was, I felt he gave Nixon too much strength, gravitas and dignity. Nixon always came across to me as a weasely underhanded little snake. I didn't like him when I heard the tapes and I planned on keeping it that way. Still it's an interesting film and well worth watching.

*peak

It was very pedestrian - barely any peeks or troughs, and there should have been some given how explosive the content was.

There's something about British actors in US things too. They always look like they're in panto.

And I had no idea Kevin Bacon was in this movie - I don't think he did either.

This has the same problem for me that Valkyrie does - I already know what happened and the outcome which kind of robs the film of any tension of element of surpise.
What I'm left with is looky-likeys re-enacting tv programmes and that doesn't float my boat.
Perhaps if they gave Frost laser-eyes or tits or something

Yeah this has got my interest as well. Political thrillers are the sort of thing you have to be in the right frame of mind for though and there's a lot of competition at the cinema for my attention.

I'd quite like to see this, because I rather like Michael Sheen. Not sure why they chose a poster in which he's giving his sex face though.