RFK
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DVD Cover Information Actor: David Paymer, James Cromwell, Linus Roache, Martin Donovan, Ving Rhames Director: Robert Dornhelm Brand: Studio DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language) Format: Color, DVD, NTSC Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 90 minutes DVD Release Date: 2003-05-27 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Studio |
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Movie Reviews of RFK
Movie Review: RFK
Summary: 3 Stars
With an admiration bordering on reverence, RFK is a made-for-television movie that tracks Robert Kennedy's career from November, 1963 to his own death by assassination in June, 1968. British actor Linus Roache plays Robert F. Kennedy and James Cromwell plays RFK nemesis and, coincidentally President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson.
Roache has the hair, the accent, and enough of the charisma to make a convincing RFK. Missing is the sense of the spiritual growth RFK underwent in the five years following his brother's assassination. It's mentioned, of course. At one point Kennedy, after recounting some incidents in his ruthless past, asks an aide "Do you really think I've changed?" Unfortunately, the aide's affirmation stands in stead of the movie showing us the change. Rather, writer Hank Steinberg and director Robert Dornhelm insert the shade of John F. Kennedy (Martin Donovan) into the story, and make him a character who pops in and out throughout the movie to chide, goad, and advise his younger brother. It's a device the story doesn't need. The facts were rich enough in themselves, and the JFK ghost just distracts and pulls us out of the story as well as cause us to question RFK's sanity. Still, from carpeting-bagging senatorial candidate to spearheading a program to rebuild slum neighborhoods in New York City, from meeting with union activist Cesar Chavez to addressing an anti-apartheid crowd in South Africa to a campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination on an anti-war platform, RFK does hit most of the major points of Kennedy's career post 1963.
RFK is an okay if somewhat spotty and superficial political biopic. Towards the end of his life Robert Kennedy had indeed changed, and his growth from ruthless detachment to compassionate liberalism is one of the strangest political odysseys in American political history. If this movie sparks an interest in the runt of the Kennedy clan (it should,) and a trip to the bookshelf to check out a biography (Evan Thomas's Robert Kennedy: His Life is a good place to start,) it's good enough for me to recommend.