THE ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON – Sean Penn
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
Direction: Niels Mueller
Screenplay: Niels Mueller and Kevin Kennedy
Cast: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Don Cheadle, Jack Thompson, Michael Wincott, Brad William Henke
Although technically a psychosocial drama about those for whom the American Dream is nothing more than a pathological delusion, Niels Mueller’s The Assassination of Richard Nixon actually works as a suspenseful horror movie. From the very start, we know that something dreadful is about to happen. As the fact-based story inexorably progresses toward its bloody climax, the suspense keeps increasing until the violence, depicted in brutal detail, explodes on screen. That’s the stuff that nightmares are made of.
As depicted by Emmanuel Lubezki’s appropriately gritty, washed-out cinematography, it all begins in the winter of 1974, as [...]
by Andre Soares | December 13, 2004
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Tags: Don Cheadle, Emmanuel Lubezki, Film Reviews, Jack Thompson, Naomi Watts, Niels Mueller, Political Movies, Sean Penn, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, Three-Star Movies, Thrillers
