The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 130
Fresh: 88 | Rotten: 42
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Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 16
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The true story of a man who, on February 22, 1974, was thwarted from an ambitious plan for political assassination provides the basis for this striking psychological drama. Sam Bicke (Sean Penn) is a salesman for an office-supply company whose life is slowly beginning to unravel. Bicke's job is going nowhere, his wife, Marie (Naomi Watts), has left him, and his boss (Jack Thompson) keeps pushing self-help books on him that make a mockery of his state of mind. One of Bicke's few friends is Bonny
Cast
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Sean Penn
Sam Bicke -
Don Cheadle
Bonny -
Jack Thompson
Jack Jones -
Michael Wincott
Julius Bicke -
Mykelti Williamson
Harold Mann -
Naomi Watts
Marie Bicke -
Nick Searcy
Tom Ford -
Brad William Henke
Martin Jones -
Tracy Middendorf
Businesswoman -
Lily Knight
Receptionist -
Eileen Ryan
Marie's Mother -
April Grace
Mae Simmons -
Joe Marinelli
Mel Samuels -
Jared Dorrance
Sammy Jr. -
Jenna Milton
Ellen -
Mariah Massa
Julie -
Derek Greene
Joey Simmons -
Robert Kenneth Cooper
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All Critics (142) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (93) | Rotten (44) | DVD (25)
Sean Penn brings this obscure failure back to life in a vivid portrayal of a madman in the making, a madman who had a date with a gun and history.
Top CriticIt's not just Nixon's shadow that hangs like a cloud over Assassination, it's the shadow of the bummerific era of American movies his regime spawned.
The idea that assassins are products of their times is intriguing, but The Assassination of Richard Nixon is betrayed by its ambitions and pretensions.
A well-made if relatively uninvolved character study with nothing noteworthy to say.
Features a bravura performance by Penn as a frustrated and deluded loser, but there isn't much else to recommend. The story is a one-note drag.
Assassination is an odd little movie. It's exceptionally well-done but doesn't attain the levels of meaning for which it seems to be striving.
Debut writer/director Neils Mueller (co-writer on "Tadpole") stitches together an ambiguous meditation on the pervasive affects of government corruption during the Nixon Administration that led a Baltimore man to attempt to kill the President by hijacking
The film manages something quite remarkable, both a compassion for Bicke's wounded sense of life's betrayals, and stark revulsion for the personal logic of his bloody remedy.
The film manages something quite remarkable, both a compassion for Bicke's wounded sense of life's betrayals, and stark revulsion for the personal logic of his bloody remedy.
(...) Niels Mueller (...) conduce el relato con seguridad y tensión creciente hacia el inevitable estallido de violencia final.
There are good things about the movie, but it finally trips itself up on its two-fisted seriousness.
Penn -- with his angsty, swallowed depression -- elevates the movie into a gripping portrait of uniquely American estrangement and alienation...
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