What I thought about the movie

Rating: 3/10 (19 October 2006)

All the President's men The movie "All the President's Men" was an alright movie. The movie is about two men named Carl Bernstein, played by Dustin Hoffman, and Bob Woodward, played by Robert Redford; they work for the Washington Post. Bob has worked for the post nine months and Carl has work with the Washington Post since the age of 16. They get a story about the Watergate break in that leads to the Republican Party and the re-election of President Nixon.
Carl and Bob wind up on a very strange story about the re-election and the Watergate break in. They spend most of their time talking to people who don't want their names in the paper about talking about the president to the post.
When it comes time to talk to another person, Deep Throat played by Hal Holbrook, who doesn't want his name mentioned in the article at all but is willing to tell Bob Woodward if they are right or not but nothing else. It's really neat that Deep Throat took his own time to come out to the press and tell them that he was the one unknown source that was talking to Bob in the parking garage about the story until last year (2005) and his real name is W. Mark Felt.
Aspects of the movie are okay, but they could of worked some parts to make the movie to have more involvement to the watchers.
The acting was pretty poor at times and then mind blowing at others. Also times when the shots in the movie were really dark and you couldn't see anything in the background to notice anything else going on.
The dialogue was great between Carl and Bob and great when talking to sources and not that great when they are talking to their boss, Harry Rosenfeld, played by Jack Warden. The dialogue is so good in the movie you can tell that Carl and Bob don't really like each other in the beginning then towards the middle they become friends. The pacing of the movie was really slow paced when Carl and Bob weren't doing anything and then extremely fast paced when the story is getting really involved so you can't really understand what is going on. They need to slow down the parts when everything is clicking and fitting together to make sense of the story and speed up the parts when they aren't doing anything that focus on the story of the President or the Watergate break in.
To rate this movie from one to ten, it would be a three because it's not the greatest movie out there and not the worst but there a lot of things that they could of worked on to make it a mind blowing amazing movie for everyone.