This movie provides a lot of food for thought about true believers who don't mind killing people to achieve their goals.
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04/25/05
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
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Reviews Counted:129
Fresh:88
Rotten:41
Average Rating:6.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: A chilling drama that explores and exposes the dark side of the American Dream, THE ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON focuses on the prescient and tragic true story of Sam Bicke (Penn), a... [More]
Starring: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Don Cheadle, Jack Thompson
Director: Niels Mueller
Reviews for The Assassination of Richard Nixon
By the close you're convinced that there should have been more to the film than what ended up onscreen.
04/19/05
A forgotten chapter of history that exposes truths about the American dream worth remembering.
04/09/05
It makes for a grim time at the movies, but also a sobering one because it seeks truth, not sensationalism, in ugliness.
03/30/05
Even with three top-flight actors, The Assassination of Richard Nixon never becomes much more than a character study of a footnote in American history.
03/11/05
A case study devoid of empathy, it's Taxi Driver from Cybill Shepherd's point of view.
03/05/05
Penn delivers another of the incisive and riveting performances we've come to expect from one of our greatest actors.
03/04/05
Penn's challenge was to create a distinct character, especially with the shadow of Travis Bickle looming ... he largely succeeds, although he doesn't achieve De Niro's pathos.
03/04/05
Penn's agonized performance in this under-the-radar drama is better than his Oscar-winning work in Mystic River.
02/28/05
You'll believe a worm can kvetch.
02/25/05
A starkly ambitious endeavor for such a fellow, and Mueller pulls it off well, if not perfectly.
02/20/05
The film should be seen for the performances alone.
02/17/05
The movie shows how executive audacity can move the average Joe to become frighteningly less ordinary.
02/11/05
Sean Penn brings this obscure failure back to life in a vivid portrayal of a madman in the making, a madman who had a date with a gun and history.
02/11/05
It's clear that writer-director Niels Mueller has some delusions about making the next Taxi Driver, but nothing here has the sheer visceral impact of that film.
02/11/05
A performance (de Sean Penn) neste filme é mais um exemplo de sua genialidade.
02/10/05
Sam Bicke ... is the role Penn was born to play -- if only because it's different than any others he's ever done -- and makes the film the triumph it is.
02/07/05
Eerie in the sense that it reveals an assassination plan peculiarly similar to the attacks carried out by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001.
02/07/05
It's not just Nixon's shadow that hangs like a cloud over Assassination, it's the shadow of the bummerific era of American movies his regime spawned.
02/04/05
Penn's work is so selfless, so clean and free of anything familiar in his other work, that you sit there astonished, absorbed, held to the last frame.
02/04/05
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