Friday, September 22, 2006
All the King’s Men
This movie is a remake of the 1949 Academy Award winning film of the same name. This film chronicles the rise to power of Willie Stark and the people around him. It has a great cast including Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, James Gandolfini, Patricia Clarkson, and Anthony Hopkins, but their talents are wasted here. Penn seems to be doing a Joe Cocker impersonation. He is loud, but not charismatic enough to be believable. This tale of political corruption is dark, slow, and plodding. Like Stark’s empty promises to his constituents, this movie doesn’t deliver to the audience. You can’t fool this hick, all the king’s men couldn’t put this Humpty Dumpty back together again.
Alien gives it 1 “nail em up” star out of 4.
This movie is a remake of the 1949 Academy Award winning film of the same name. This film chronicles the rise to power of Willie Stark and the people around him. It has a great cast including Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, James Gandolfini, Patricia Clarkson, and Anthony Hopkins, but their talents are wasted here. Penn seems to be doing a Joe Cocker impersonation. He is loud, but not charismatic enough to be believable. This tale of political corruption is dark, slow, and plodding. Like Stark’s empty promises to his constituents, this movie doesn’t deliver to the audience. You can’t fool this hick, all the king’s men couldn’t put this Humpty Dumpty back together again.
Alien gives it 1 “nail em up” star out of 4.
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