Monday, October 17, 2011

All the President's Men - 9 stars out of 10

All the President's Men - 9 stars out of 10

"Get out your notebook.  There's more."  All the President's Men is the true story of Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, the two Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper reporters who uncovered a lot of the mystery behind the Watergate Scandal.  Redford and Hoffman put forth an amazing performance in this recreation of the genius reporting that extracted important information from unwilling sources.  The story is sometimes slow-moving but fascinating from start to finish.  The film concludes with a fantastically artistic ending, including the shot of Redford and Hoffman typing in the background with the tv in the foreground, and allowing the typewritten text to tell the ending to this story.

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