Very Disappointing

Rating: 2/10 (3 August 2019)

A good biopic about Murrow could have been made. Actually, it was made already. By HBO in 1986. This movie is too narrowly focused and lacks depth. We learn nothing about the Murrow-Paley relationship which would help us to understand the actions of either in this film. Clooney spends far too much time on old film clips of Joe McCarthy and on extraneous and irrelevant clips of a jazz singer. (If he had to use music to set the tone of the 50s, he'd have done better with clips of his aunt.) The film is full or errors (see goofs). This is a Hollywood pretty boy trying to be a serious film maker and instead offer self-indulgent BS, that would barely get a passing grade in film school. See "Murrow" with Daniel J. Travanti instead. And Edward Herrmann makes a much better Fred Friendly than does Clooney.