Frost/Nixon

So I'm catching up on the Oscar nominated films, as I do every year if I hadn't already seen them, and next on my list was Frost/Nixon. The main story of the film take place three years after former president Richard Nixon was impeached from office due to the Watergate scandal. He had remained quiet for all this time, not so much by choice, but because there were little to none interview offers given to him except one, a series of four interviews over twelve days. A British television talk show host named David Frost made the offer really only because his TV career hadn't gone where he wanted it to, and he saw this as his only chance to gain some real credibility. Little did he know that the Nixon camp saw this as an opportunity to change the public eyes view of him, Nixon had planned to dominate the interview seeing Frost as a target, not an interviewer. At first Frost is very intimidated by Nixon's dominance, and it looked like the interviews were not going to go as planned by Frost and his crew. That plan was to shake Nixon up and get him to speak truthfully on such issues as Vietnam, and the Watergate scandal. In what turns into a battle of wits Frost finally gets Nixon in a corner in what turned out to be the most famed interview in Presidential history. Now that all of that is out of the way how was the movie? Frost/Nixon is a very good film, but it isn't great. In fact to me the first half of the film felt like killing time until they got to the interviews, and even the interviews didn't really heat up until the film was nearly over. If it weren't for those last gripping 30 to 45 mins of the film I don't believe this film would have even been nominated. Then again the Academy does favor political films. Nonetheless Frost/Nixon is a gripping film but it isn't nearly as good and as flawless as Slumdog Millionaire.

4 out of 5

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