Hype isn't just for Blockbusters

Rating: Null/10 (3 December 2005)

I will admit to getting wrapped up in Capote's dilemma by the second half of the film, but as interesting as the man's real life story is, the film offers too little backstage access to Capote for us to understand the central relationships which make the crux of the film. The fact is, as played by Hoffman or anyone, the man is too engimatic on screen to elicit our sympathies. It might have helped if the movie wasn't shot like a stage play; with long, staid scenes that never build up enough steam to carry the audience into the next. For all its faults the movie is well paced, and it kept me invested in its outcome. And I've just got to say it, that voice is aggravating, real or not.