I tried so hard to like this

Rating: 1/10 (25 February 2001)

I chose to watch this film solely because it was in the IMDB top 4, and with only one or two exceptions most of the top 20 are brilliant.
My first two attempts at watching it saw me fall asleep after about 20 minutes. The third time I made myself not move until the end, and it couldn't have come soon enough. It really is the most boring film I have ever seen.
There is no major criticism of this film, purely because it must be one of the few that are about absolutley nothing. OK it concerned somebody's political and media career, but then so have a thousand other TV shows and films. Are they really subjects interesting enough to warrant making any film about, let alone one as popular as this?
It lacks any action, suspense, humour or anything else a film needs. You can turn your brain off for two hours to watch this drivel as you won't need it. That is nothing to do with it being from the 1940's or in black and white. So were The Wizard of OZ, And Then There Were None and Casablanca and they are all brilliant.
I couldn't think of anything worse than a film being made today about Robert Maxwell or Rupert Murdoch's life. It would be as painfully dull and boring as this.
2 out of 10.