Black and white, in all aspects

Rating: 4/10 (13 September 2006)

Recap: As the pressure and persecutions from senator McCarthy and his hearings grow, one team of reporters, spearheaded by Murrow and Friendly, decide to investigate and criticize his methods.
Comments: It sure is black and white, in all aspects. With that I mean that very few emotions, very little color. It is little more than dramatized documentary and seems to cover (rightly so if meant to be a documentary) very little of thoughts, emotions and character development - basically what makes a drama interesting. Even though it is a very important and maybe traumatic episode in American modern history, as a movie it becomes dull and uninteresting. The only element of interest is generated outside the movie, and that is that it is based on reality. Otherwise it is little more than a bunch of well-known actors making a black and white movie. A movie so black and white that it contains no emotions...
4/10