absolutely brilliant and entertaining‏

Rating: 7/10 (16 February 2009)

Both Langella and Sheen don't look that like their subjects, but both succeed in making these men interesting and sympathetic, more than the viewer would have ever imagined. Langella doesn't try to imitate Richard Nixon, and gives a powerful and convincing performance, freeing the old president Nixon from the association of sleaze and turning him into something somehow Shakespearian. Frost is shown at first as a journalist with no ideas, no principles and convictions, no ambition but to make money and be famous in the US; at the end he gets to prove likable and clever. Never mind your political opinion on Nixon, there's no rehabilitation at all here. It's just that the man is depicted perfectly, regardless of a judgment about his deeds.