Review of Milk (2008) by Dwilly — 02 Dec 2008
No, sorry, it's just a flat bio-pic, hitting all the numbers without shedding any light on character or the nature of the times. It's also strangely uninspiring. Maybe Van Sant feels the gay struggle so deeply he thought he could afford to tip the story to show Milk as a manipulative creep; and, while Penn is great and bold and all that, his performance is self-contained and doesn't call out to any kind of universality so you just watch it.
Brolin is not good, and I'm a bit sick of this emperor of Hollywood royalty parading around without clothes.
This review of Milk (2008) was written by Dwilly on 02 Dec 2008.
Milk has generally received very positive reviews.
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