An average movie

Even though it wasn't well received when it was released, since Clint Eastwood is one of the best directors at work nowadays, I still wanted to check it out. I mean, the whole thing sounded great on paper: one of the best directors and one of the best actors working together on a biopic on one of the most notorious figures of the 20th century. Unfortunately, the whole thing was indeed rather disappointing. Basically, they kind of messed up the script in my opinion. I mean, if we follow the story line, Hoover not only created the FBI, but was also a repressed homosexual, allegedly a cross dresser, a socially impaired borderline autistic fellow and his mother was apparently a b*tch as well. That was frankly a little too much too swallow as a viewer and a little too difficult to handle for the makers. In my opinion, they should have dropped a few elements and correctly handle what they kept. Take his secretary for example. They first have this peculiar date but it doesn't go anywhere and they decide she should be his secretary, that's about it. Indeed, for the rest of the movie, you have a great actress of Naomi Watts caliber showing up from time to time, doing a secretary. A part from that, she didn't have anything else to do during the whole damned thing so she could have been dropped all together as far as I'm concerned. I mean, it wasn't a bad movie, far from it, as a matter of fact, the great late Roger Ebert loved it. The whole thing looked really good, Leonardo DiCaprio did a pretty good job as well and there was something really interesting about this character but they didn't approach the material from the right angle. Still, like I said before, even if it was rather disappointing, it is far from being a bad flick and I still think it is worth a look, especially if you are interested in Clint Eastwood's work.

6/10