A gripping and accurate account of the infamous Watergate scandal

Rating: Null/10 (21 October 2002)

The most amazing thing about this landmark of a suspense film is that by the time I saw it, I knew how it would turn out, it being about the Watergate scandal after all, but I was still hooked on its suspense. Now if that's not excellent suspenseful film making, then I don't know what is. Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman give top notch performances as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two Washington Post reporters who were the lead investigators of the 1973-1974 Watergate Hotel scandal that rocked Richard M. Nixon's presidency and caused extreme controversy within the White House. Alan J. Pakula's maverick direction propels this fine film as does an Academy Award winning performance by Jason Robards Jr. as executive editor Ben Bradlee. No other political film has managed to be as powerful as this one. It is a must see.