Frost/Nixon
Saw it today, and it's reasonably good. The original play was directed by the same dude that did The Last King of Scotland.
Unfortunately, it suffers from the same problem as Last King, in which it's almost entirely made up.
Not just little stuff, mind you, but the entire premise! The film works up to a climax of Frost getting a confession out of Nixon, but there was no actual confession! Frost is portrayed as this hero outwitting the giant, but in the real interviews this basically didn't happen at all. Much like Last King, the reason to see the film is for an actor's brilliant portrayal of the villainous male lead. The story is otherwise a nice little parable told with fairly uninteresting tropes. "A pleasant fiction," essentially.
I suspect the guy playing Nixon will be nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and that he'll lose to Heath Ledger. It definitely doesn't deserve Best Picture, though it's perfectly enjoyable to watch.
Unfortunately, it suffers from the same problem as Last King, in which it's almost entirely made up.
Not just little stuff, mind you, but the entire premise! The film works up to a climax of Frost getting a confession out of Nixon, but there was no actual confession! Frost is portrayed as this hero outwitting the giant, but in the real interviews this basically didn't happen at all. Much like Last King, the reason to see the film is for an actor's brilliant portrayal of the villainous male lead. The story is otherwise a nice little parable told with fairly uninteresting tropes. "A pleasant fiction," essentially.
I suspect the guy playing Nixon will be nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and that he'll lose to Heath Ledger. It definitely doesn't deserve Best Picture, though it's perfectly enjoyable to watch.