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Rating: Null/10 (19 March 2008)

I think I can sum up this movie rather succinctly: great on style and acting, but paper thin on narration. If you are willing to invest the time to read the original Woodward / Bernstein book beforehand, you might be in for a treat -- the movie offers the same story, but with a cool soundtrack and some real babes thrown in. Personally, I haven't read the book and am not too clued about the whole affair, and consequently I might as well have watched the whole thing in Chinese. This is not the type of movie which takes the average interested-but-clueless viewer by the hand and gently guides him through the narrative. It's the type of movie which hits you over the head with a phone book and then expects you to know the number of Newman, Wilbur on 1024 Beech Ave (Glenwood). Talking heads turn up, say a few cryptic things, names are thrown about, everyone gets real excited, and I get an eerie déja-vu feeling of when I took that semiotics course in college. If there is someone who equally watches this movie equally unprepared and gets everything in it, I would like to congratulate him and shake him by the hand, but I can't claim the same for me.
Oh yeah, and the ending was a bit of a let-down. And I thought that the "Please confirm this information indirectly by doing something silly"-schtick wore real thin towards the end as well.