Product: All the King's Men [Blu-ray] (2007)
Rating: 3.0
Penn and company save the film
this remake of the 1949 film is not as good as that version,but it'sstill watchable,particularly for the performance of Sean Penn.hetranscends the material.watching him here,i can't help but think he maybe the greatest living actor of his generation,at the very least.JackieEarle Haley(whom i had heard a lot of good things about but had never seenbefore)is also exceptional in a small role,as is Patricia Clarkson.therest of the supporting cast are also good.really all of the actors arebetter than the movie they are in.this is really an actor's film.thefilm itself tends to drag and be long winded and veer off track,losingmomentum which it never fully gains.if it weren't for Penn's bravuraperformance,this would likely be a skippable movie.but he(and byextension,the rest of the cast)salvages the film.for me,All the King'sMen (2006) is a 3/5