Review of Frost/Nixon (2008) by J-Shap — 26 Aug 2011

Frost/Nixon has all the right makings for an incredibly good historical drama, but curiously doesn't end up going there. It's almost as if this film is too perfect. The degree that everything is processed and controlled to the slightest moment oddly becomes the film's undoing, as such a desirable trait in film fails because it is used on real life, where things should come as more of a surprise and as more of a victory, than in Frost/Nixon.

Perhaps that wouldn't matter so much if it felt like the idea it had from real life was still there (see: The Social Network), but everything has disappeared in this felt facade. This is an oddly artificial film.