Review of All the King's Men (1949) by Tahirah L — 05 Jan 2008

It was a great movie for what it's discussing--politics and corruption in politics. if u see the dvd with special features, one of the actors said it best (paraphrasing): "there are paralells from the time the movie took place and now... the problems (in politics) are the same". that's what I kept on thinking throughout the movie & "some things have changed, but we're still going thru c****".

Sean Penn, out of all the all star cast impressed me since I have been following his acting career more than any one else's in the movie except for Hopkins who is friggin' awesome (Hannibal movies and Amistad, etc). I have been catching up with his work these past 3 yrs (thanks to my public library's extensive collection of his movies), and Penn does a great job in this movie for what the plot is.

A political movie could be done better than this for sure, but this isn't the worse that could have been done. I bought this movie as part of my Penn and Hopkins collection :-).