Stunning

Rating: 9/10 (24 January 2009)

A brilliant showing of the Frost Nixon interviews. Great acting all around and a stunning case study of Nixon at his finest. Controlling everything till confronted with the simple truth. Frost a "talk show host" confronting what was, for those of us on the left, the boogey man of politics. The man who pulled no punches against his opponents even when those punches were sent below the belt and seemed to be the most distanced and arrogant of men. An Interview for the ages that leaves one almost feeling sorry for Nixon as he spends his remaining years despised by the world for actions that he, it seems, honestly felt were for the greater good.
This is not a Nixon pardon, far from it, it's a call to realize that Presidents need to be held accountable for their actions regardless if they are done for the greater good, when those actions result in the greater evil as it were. The final scenes of these interviews are stunning and powerful, the looks and the feeling that went in are what pushed this film from good to great in my opinion. Definitely one of the top must see movies of this year.