Matt MoodyBobby - 3 Clocks
December 11th 2006 01:53
As an avid moviegoer there is nothing I hate more than knowing the ending of a movie before watching it. I make a special effort to avoid all publicity, interviews and have even been known to, on occasion, stick my fingers in my ears and sing a song to block out any clues. But sometimes it's inevitable. Sometimes a movie tells a story so well known that you would literally have to grow up under a rock to not know how its going to end. And it is those stories that present a particular challenge for the creative minds behind the film. And with Bobby, writer/director Emilio Estevez rose to that challenge.
Estevez took the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, an event, whose telling should have been anti-climactic, and instead of focusing on the event itself he shifted the spotlight to the seemingly mundane characters who lived the event up close. However getting around this initial obstacle was not enough, because despite what could have been an interesting take on a historical event, Bobby still failed to climax.
With a cast that reads like a laundry list of who's who in Hollywood, what Bobby lacks in follow through it makes up for with truly outstanding performances. On second thought make that "ALMOST makes up for," because in a movie with close to ten storylines all going on at once, these truly genuine performances only whet the appetite and left this audience member unsatisfied.
If you like Bobby then it will be for all the wrong reasons. It will be because it connects you to a time from your past or a hope you have for the future. Luckily for Estevez, it is a connection that for many will be strong enough to blind them from all that is missing from Bobby. But for others who are too young to remember or too cynical to care, they will want something more than a well acted history lesson and Bobby simply fails to deliver.
Estevez took the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, an event, whose telling should have been anti-climactic, and instead of focusing on the event itself he shifted the spotlight to the seemingly mundane characters who lived the event up close. However getting around this initial obstacle was not enough, because despite what could have been an interesting take on a historical event, Bobby still failed to climax.
With a cast that reads like a laundry list of who's who in Hollywood, what Bobby lacks in follow through it makes up for with truly outstanding performances. On second thought make that "ALMOST makes up for," because in a movie with close to ten storylines all going on at once, these truly genuine performances only whet the appetite and left this audience member unsatisfied.
If you like Bobby then it will be for all the wrong reasons. It will be because it connects you to a time from your past or a hope you have for the future. Luckily for Estevez, it is a connection that for many will be strong enough to blind them from all that is missing from Bobby. But for others who are too young to remember or too cynical to care, they will want something more than a well acted history lesson and Bobby simply fails to deliver.
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