Disappointment....

Rating: 5/10 (22 May 2009)

I guess they thought that making a movie out of the MAKING of an interesting book would be interesting by extension.
In the end though this movie has very little to offer. Anyone who has read "In Cold Blood" knows that Capote got a little close to the killers, especially Smith.. It seems like the central moral dilemma of this movie is that he lied to them a few times and *gasp* he was more interested in turning a profit than being a humanitarian.
Of course, he is dealing with people who killed an entire innocent family and are not really deserving of a lot of sympathy so it's hardly the shocking dilemma that the movie makes it out to be that he ends up having (at best) mixed feelings about them in the end and not being totally up-front with his "friend".
His moral hand wringing just seems like much-ado about nothing. The movie does paint Capote as rather unlikable, but that seems to be its only real accomplishment. There's a bit of interesting background information for people interested in "In Cold Blood" but that's about all.