Review of Milk (2008) by Spangle — 05 May 2016
An inspirational triumph of a film from director Gus Van Sant, Milk is a beautifully moving and thoroughly entertaining film about the life of Harvey Milk. An incredibly well-written film, Milk moves elegantly through the man's life and manages to focus on the movement he helped to create while also adequately covering the most important decade of his life.
Sean Penn is a revelation here as he completely becomes the titular character and brings a certain charisma and charm to the role that demonstrates brilliantly why Milk was a popular figure amongst all citizens.
Often times, biopics struggle to be truly engaging and entertaining due to its events actually occurring. This is most certainly not an issue with Milk as it is a brilliantly entertaining film from beginning to end and hits you with every emotional uppercut in its story with full force.
Overall, Milk stands tall in large part thanks to Sean Penn, but fantastic direction from Gus Van Sant does not hurt.
This review of Milk (2008) was written by Spangle on 05 May 2016.
Milk has generally received very positive reviews.
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