Depp and Landau are standouts.

Rating: 8/10 (7 September 2005)

The era and efforts of the worst Director ever, Ed Wood, have been very well recreated in this movie, and the acting of Johnny Depp as the title character and Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi are quite remarkable and the latter clearly deserved his Best Supporting Actor Award. Depp seems to be able to take on the most outlandish of roles, and make them not only, believable, but truly memorable, and that us very much the case in "ED WOOD". It is possible, or even probable, some of the events depicted may never have occurred, but it was entertaining and gave a good insight to the Hollywood of that era. I was most surprised to see Bill Murray and Sarah Jessica Parker being cast, and in their somewhat "weird" roles they carried them off very effectively. The ending, where the film reveals what happened to all the characters made for a very interesting conclusion.