Hopkins tour de force

Rating: 10/10 (22 June 2006)

Hopkins is always good, in this film he is amazing.
In Titus, he dominated the screen with power and conviction, here with perseverance and emotions. You felt as if you were peeking into the life of Burton and find out what makes him tick.
Supporting characters are well developed but not overly.
Fun and entertaining movie for everyone. Hopkins does the Kiwi accent to perfection. Kiwis really are like that bodging old bit of junk together to build something strange.
It's not about getting to the destination, it is the journey that matters as he travels in the 1950's US from LA to the salt flats.
Film sublimely comments on how changed society is from today to the 50's, although somewhat too altruistically. If Normal Rockwell was going to make a movie about that time period, this would be it.