Seems like a celebration of celebrity culture

Rating: 4/10 (29 January 2005)

For most of this movie I kept trying to figure out what it was about the story that made it worth being told. Was it just that this was a powerful figure of American history? Was it his celebrity status or the fact that he was bound up in other famous peoples' lives? These are somewhat obvious questions, I know, but the fact that I couldn't justify making this movie to myself made me wonder why anybody else would think it was.
Given the array of historical figures that could merit having a "biopic" made about them, why an American industrialist who seems to have contributed little to this country besides underwhelming motion pictures and better airplanes? Why not people who contributed the cultural and moral advancement of society? These questions are rhetorical, but I have the feeling that many people will wonder themselves why this movie was made when they watch it.
4/10