Somewhat Disappointing

Rating: Null/10 (16 January 2001)

I really wanted to like this movie, but I really did not. I thought the performances were pretty good (Costner should have bagged using the accent, but otherwise he was fine). My problem with the film was that I saw four microphones that inadvertently appeared at the top of the screen above the actors -- two of them were so obvious that pretty much everyone in the theater saw them and laughed. I could see something like this happening in a low budget film, but this movie reportedly cost $80-90 million. Maybe this is nitpicking, but seeing something like that really disrupts a film for me.
I also thought a few important scenes came off as a bit fake, particularly the scene where the President and Bobbie Kennedy were watching Stevenson address the UN. This film would probably make a good rental, but I cannot recommend that you pay theater prices to see it.