I saw 2 films yesterday; both circling critics in a bid to pick up acclaim in the end-of-year awards frenzy. They are very different approaches to film-making and the 'other' movie, Slumdog Millionaire, I will comment upon separately.Frost/Nixon is the good old dependable studio awards movie. Directed with a solid, old fashioned hand by Ron Howard, adapted by the playwrite from his own play, and staring two heavyweights of modern thesping; Langella and Sheen.
And dependable it has every right to be 'cause its bloody good. Feeling more like a boxing movie than one about an interview, its obvious from the start that TV star David Frost has seriously underestimated his opponent, disgraced President Richard Nixon. Much like a Rocky movie, we know who is gonna win...history has alreay recorded the result. The question is... how is a credibility crumbling near has-been TV presenter going to better the force-of-nature of a man that is Nixon?
Riviting!
