David Strathairn is great as Murrow, but the film fell a little short of excellence

Rating: 7/10 (23 April 2006)

Good Night, and Good Luck is about a broadcast journalist named Edward R. Murrow and his band of CBS news workers on their take to battle Joseph McCarthy's threats on communism. Good Night, and Good Luck is a very political film, so political that I thought I was watching the history channel. This movie could've actually been a documentary instead of a film, because all of the scenes felt like you were in a news room and facing the issues of McCarthy and Murrow. David Strathairn plays an excellent Murrow and all his facial expressions and how he talked looked just like his. I'm certainly glad that he got an Oscar nomination for his portrayal. The movie felt a little short of my standards though. I thought on some scenes, they were way to boring and almost put me straight to sleep. It didn't really show the background of their lives and that is one thing that I was looking for into the film. Overall, this is a decent Oscar nominated film that could've been better in a lot of ways, besides the point of David Strathairn playing a knockout performance that carried the film.
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