Over-rated but very interesting.

Rating: 7/10 (17 June 2017)

I've never been a huge fan of "All the President's Men." For me, the film is rarely gripping but is still interesting all the same. The director - Alan J. Pakula - made a far superior political thriller with "The Parallax View" from 1974. That is a truly memorable film. The cast in "All the President's Men" is exceptional. Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford are well cast but they are given excellent support by the likes of Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Jason Robards Jnr, Hal Halbrooks and others. The kind of dialogue that this film has, makes the whole film rather talky. This disappoints me slightly as I was hoping for some incident. Not a bad film by any means but not the classic everyone thinks it is.