The Silver Screen
Movie Review: 'J. Edgar' Biopic a Bore
J. Edgar Hoover, the father of the FBI gets a muddled, uncompelling retelling of his life in Director Clint Eastwood's 'J. Edgar.'
Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar goes wrong in just about every way that a biopic can go wrong. It's poorly written, directed and casted, it's as tedious as it is unimaginative and it's too long by at least a half hour. Just about all of its choices are poor ones, it has next to no insights about its subject or the historical events depicted and worst of all, it's boring. A movie about one of the towering and controversial figures of 20th century America shouldn't be boring. A look at the life of J. Edgar Hoover (played by Leonardo DiCaprio), the director of the FBI for five decades, the film slogs through various major events of the 20th century, from the Palmer Raids to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping to the Kennedy assassination. Through it all…
Curmudgeon
5:11 pm on Friday, November 11, 2011
I was really interested in seeing this movie, but your's is the second review panning it. It's a shame, during his lifetime, he was bigger than life!! I thought when I heard Dicaprio was playing Hoover, it was a miscast. Maybe even Phillip Seymour Hoffman?? would have been more on target. more ›