Reality bores ! (DVD)

Rating: 4/10 (2 May 2009)

This movie ends my Nixon trilogy after having seen "Frost/Nixon" and "Nixon". Among the tree, it is the most accurate movie thus being the weakest.
There isn't any drama: it's the facts, all the facts but only the facts. And as it deals with Watergate, the facts are very complicated, very hard to follow and if I haven't seen the other movies before or browsed Internet while this watching, I would have feel terribly lost.
In addition, as Oliver Stone cleverly recalls, the Post crusade didn't give birth to the Watergate scandal, just kept it to the attention of the American people. The really stars in the Watergate are the judges, who decided to open this case. That's why the movie stops where the press has stopped and ends abruptly without any senate testimonies or anything. So, it's not really about the Nixon cover-up but about the dirty tricks he and his men did with their "plumbers" team.
But, as the movies was released in 1976, you have the best mood of this period: the clothes, the cars, the society: just look at Redford's suit, being the same color as his blonde hairs. It's a pity that we don't dress like that anymore.