Movie review- J Edgar Hoover

This past weekend I went over to the Angelca in hopes to catch Melincollia, or some other intresting looking film, rather my friends convince me that we just HAD to see J Edagr Hoover. Seeing the Lenardo DiCapro would be potraying Hoover I concluded i would at least enjoy watching him ;)... however now I think I should haev asked to length of the movie before agreeing. After watching this 2 hour and 17 minute movie I have a lot to say, so hold on, this will be a trip.




This movie takes an interesting view on the life of J. Edgar showing us everything of his home life to his build up of a career. The cover almost every major event of his life, except for his birth. Now personally I've had the idea that J Edgar was a smart, yet relatively horrible man, and somewhat disturbed. The movie does not blatantly defimate J Edgar, but rather shows the viewer all opinions, and much of J Edgar's original poorly executed objectives. The start of the movie the viewer feels a sense of sympathy for the man and as time progresses the viewer would be crazy to not develop a sense of disapproval in the man J Edgar becomes. For director Clint Eastwood, although less violent then most of his films, this movie falls accurately in his portfolio featuring a miserable man leading to his own demise. Clint Eastwood's traditional filming style successfully highlights the dark, semi-satirical script, and creates interesting time jumps between past and present.
Now don't get me wrong the acting was incredible! I really bought into the emotional J Edgar, the over bearing mother, and the stressed homosexual relationship. But the makeup was too much. They tried too hard to make very attractive actors look unattractive, which was done poorly. On top of that the same actors age from 17- late 80s, with such a traumatic change in the amount of makeup and touch up used, it is hard for the audience to really keep that suspension of disbelief. Although much of the cinematography was beautiful, i feel like this was one aspect of the movie that was OVER, WAY OVER done.
In conclusion it was an okay movie with wonderful actors. For the most part it is pleasing to the eye and the mood and emotion is continuous through the movie. The script was anticlimactic and did not reveal the real J Edgar, the man we love to hate, until the last 10 minutes. For one long ass movie, it was a short reward.