Brilliant Performance in a Boring Film

Rating: 6/10 (3 March 2006)

Look, I just cannot get on the bandwagon for this film---even though I read many books by Truman Capote. Hoffman makes a a superb clone of Truman Capote. His performance is brilliant--I will say it again: brilliant, but to me, the movie was a little boring, no, maybe a lot boring. It mainly concentrates on his writing of In Cold Blood and his infatuation and obsession with Perry Smith--that is it. Nothing after that. Didn't the man have more to him after In Cold Blood---well, we are just given a few sentences on the screen as to what he did, when he died. I was impressed by the performance of Hoffman but felt the film lacking. I don't recommend it.