This is not Nixon.

Rating: 4/10 (5 January 2009)

As a film it's just OK, a bit trite and under-explored but the bottom line is that Langella's performance is just not Nixon. I thought that Hopkins did a bad version in Nixon (1992), but this makes him look spot on. I understand that actors can take things as they will and sometimes it works (in the 80's I saw David Bowie do Elephant Man on Broadway with no makeup and he pulled it off) but I don't believe at any time or place that this is Richard Nixon. His voice, mannerisms, look, etc, are all wrong or just vague characterizations of the ex President. If your going to do somebody who's as well know for the way he acted it needs to be better than this. Worst impression since Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison. At an early point it becomes a distraction and colors my opinion all the way through. OK film, bad Nixon.