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New DVD review from The Movie Snob
Good Night, and Good Luck (C). I finally got around to seeing this Academy Award nominee the other night, and, to put it bluntly, I was disappointed. It should have been an exciting story: a band of fearless journalists takes on a tyrannical regime, even though they risk being arrested, tortured, shipped off to a gulag, or maybe just summarily shot. Oh wait, that was Stalin's Russia. Well, in McCarthy's Amerika maybe they didn't risk getting shot or deported or even roughed up a little bit, but they might have gotten fired. Anyhow, I thought this movie had almost no dramatic tension, and even at 90 minutes felt padded with musical interludes and superfluous subplots. Skip it.
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I suppose the story has to be told in the way it was - but where's the challenge? Does anyone think Murrow's got it wrong? Would have been a much more interesting story if it had been told from McCarthy's point of view. What made him tick? Now there's a question worth 100 minutes of film.
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