Product: All the King's Men [Blu-ray] (2007)
Rating: 2.0
...AND ALL THE KING'S MEN COULDN'T PUT THIS MOVIE BACK TOGETHER AGAIN
Astonishingly uninteresting. Maybe there's a way to update the 1947 Broderick Crawford political drama based on Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, but this ain't it. A meek attempt to examine totalitarianism when all social and charitable concern is forced under the wing of a governing body, is buried under mounds of verbal mumbo-jumbo that fills in the holes of skittish characters and situations, and sometimes the mumbo-jumbo remains just bewildering; Jude Law, as Penn's right hand man - "When we first met, did you wink?", and Penn's reply, "I don't remember, maybe I just blinked." And maybe the script just stinks. Sean Penn, as a naive turned corrupt southern politician, quickly becomes a parody of the Huey Long-type character he portrays, and strangely, begins to resemble Freddie Krueger from the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series. This film was cold, detached and irrelevant, like skimming a book as opposed to reading one.