Ron Howard does it again!

Rating: 9/10 (13 January 2009)

When Ron Howard helms a film that is based on actual events, you can bet your sweet ass it's gonna be a corker... "Apollo 13", "A Beautiful Mind", "Cinderella Man".. and now "Frost/Nixon".
"Frost/Nixon" retells the events surrounding the historic face-off between disgraced American President Richard Nixon and women-chasing TV personality David Frost. Three silent and hermitic years after the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon finally approves of an interview, to face once and for all the lingering questions that have plagued him and his legacy. To the tune of a $600,000 fee, the former president finally agrees to be interviewed by David Frost-- a rather naive and silly guy who is better known as an entertainment interviewer as supposed to a political one. Clearly, the former president is planning to manhandle Frost, turn him dizzy about his wit during the interviews and through verbal magnificence make himself look all the more heroic instead of treasonous for his clear infringement of the public trust when he ordered a cover up of the Watergate Scandal.
Initially bowing and ineffective against the evasive tactics and pointless monologues of the president during the first interview, Frost's producer and handlers are beginning to doubt his ability to evoke an apology or an admission from the president. Frost feels the pressure. They haven't even raised the required 600k fee for the president, which is supposed to come from the proceeds of the interview, but a confession-less interview wouldn't sell and this particular interview will either make or break them for life. In the third and final interview, a poignant and energetic confrontation between the two will happen in front of the camera.
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With this film, im willing to forget that ron howard actually directed the dismal "Da Vinci Code". I guess that ought to tell him to stick to movies based on factual events and leave the fiction to other directors. But then again, I might still watch the upcoming "Angels And Demons" and give him a second chance...