Like so many others, I really wanted to like "Bobby." There's so much in Robert Kennedy's bio. Just reading moments from Robert Kennedy's life -- his work for Joseph McCarthy, the assassination of his beloved older brother, John, that apparently changed his life by changing his soul, the moment when he had to announce to a crowd of African Americans that MLK had been assassinated, and his recitation, to that crowd, of the poetry of Aeschylus.
A quote from that speech: "My favorite poet was Aeschylus. And he once wrote: "Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."" I mean, my God. I'm not at all in thrall to the Kennedy as Royalty myth, but this man was charisma; he was history; he was lightening.
So, yeah, I really wanted to love Emilio Estevez's "Bobby." I liked it. But I did not love it.
Sharon Stone is terrific -- please, please, Hollywood, make good use of that woman's huge talent.
Everyone else -- Anthony Hopkins, Ashton Kutcher, Harry Belafonte, Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery -- oops, sorry, that's another all star Hotel movie -- everyone is fine, right down to the cutest little cute dog since "Benjie." There are sixties songs, and sixties themes, and, oh, lots stuff.
But the movie never really grabbed me until the climactic moments, during which a speech by Bobby Kennedy was played over the soundtrack.
The best moment in this movie consisted of material that would probably have been better placed in a documentary about Bobby Kennedy.
A quote from that speech: "My favorite poet was Aeschylus. And he once wrote: "Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."" I mean, my God. I'm not at all in thrall to the Kennedy as Royalty myth, but this man was charisma; he was history; he was lightening.
So, yeah, I really wanted to love Emilio Estevez's "Bobby." I liked it. But I did not love it.
Sharon Stone is terrific -- please, please, Hollywood, make good use of that woman's huge talent.
Everyone else -- Anthony Hopkins, Ashton Kutcher, Harry Belafonte, Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery -- oops, sorry, that's another all star Hotel movie -- everyone is fine, right down to the cutest little cute dog since "Benjie." There are sixties songs, and sixties themes, and, oh, lots stuff.
But the movie never really grabbed me until the climactic moments, during which a speech by Bobby Kennedy was played over the soundtrack.
The best moment in this movie consisted of material that would probably have been better placed in a documentary about Bobby Kennedy.