This is a well-crafted film but one from a anti-Bush point of view. If you opposed the 2nd Iraq War (as I did from the start), you will feel the frustration and outrage just like 2002. But that's good -- at least according to the filmmakers.
I saw the movie because I was curious about what really happened to Valerie Plame. The movie does a great job of laying it out. Naomi Watts and Sean Penn create real characters (from the real characters) and the bad guys are well acted too. The husband (Penn) who started the whole thing (unless you think Bush started the whole thing) is a tough guy to take sometimes but he does come through.
It's not really a nail-biter like Frost/Nixon but it raises good points and is worth the price of admission.
I saw the movie because I was curious about what really happened to Valerie Plame. The movie does a great job of laying it out. Naomi Watts and Sean Penn create real characters (from the real characters) and the bad guys are well acted too. The husband (Penn) who started the whole thing (unless you think Bush started the whole thing) is a tough guy to take sometimes but he does come through.
It's not really a nail-biter like Frost/Nixon but it raises good points and is worth the price of admission.