"I'm saying that when the President does it, that means it's *not* illegal"

Rating: 7/10 (21 September 2010)

Well crafted film about a true story about a man seeking a big truth from the most powerful figure on the planet for it's time, the president of the United States over the Watergate scandal. Now I can tell why this film didn't do so well, although like I said, it's well crafted. Because some people are just not interested in American history and the truth isn't as fun or entertaining as fictional stuff. It's a involving film and everyone of the cast put on a good and some great performances, although I didn't particularly found Frank Langella to be playing Nixon, although his acting was pretty good. He did make it believable that the character he is playing is arrogant and loves his position of being in power and being in control and how his character would do and say almost anything to win. Michael Sheen is almost perfect with his performance playing David Frost. While starting off as a bit naive and friendly interviewer, turn into someone that starts using his wits and starts to play rough since his opponent who he is interviewing plays rough. This film shows power and money effects a lot of people, and how when a person holds a lot of power it leads to more greed and corruption. The only reason Richard Nixon decided to do the interview was because David Frost offers him $600,000 which is a big risk for Frost cause if the interview fails and isn't able to get the truth out of Nixon, his career will be in major jeopardy or even over. One of the most famous interview in history and all the work it had to get to certain points of that interview was interesting to watch. Now this isn't a film I would watch over and over again, but for the first time around it was actually quite intriguing. I especially like how it went in a direction where it's not about good against evil or anything along that line, but more about the fall of a man with feelings such as guilt that has went for the temptation instead of doing the right thing. Well done and compelling drama of a film, also somewhat entertaining. I also enjoyed Kevin Bacon's performance in this film playing the president's loyal lapdog.
7.2/10