Loooong & Booooring

Rating: 2/10 (24 December 2006)

This movie covers a very interesting subject, the birth of the CIA, over a 25+ year time-frame. It is amazing that those involved have made it so uninteresting. There is lots of preening, by many (usually) pretty good actors. Under the surface, I even "see" a great deal of preening by the director (DeNiro-who should get a lifetime ban from working behind the camera for this turkey) and a lot of preening by the writer. Overall, a dreadful waste! My review ends here, but IMDb says that the review has to have more lines!!! Perhaps that is one of the reasons that this movie is sooo bad. It is almost three hours long. To IMDb and to the hack who wrote this movie: stop when you have nothing further to say. Okay?