Review of The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004) by Jim S — 26 Aug 2008

I thought this was well done - convincing picture of breakdown, kidnapping, psychokilling. Good acting from Sean Penn, much better than the similarly-themed Michael Douglas movie, Falling Down, which I remember as distasteful and somehow triumphalist. Not this, but it is not depressing, somehow.

Blurb at imdb says "In 1974 Samuel Joseph Byck attempted to hijack a plane he intended to fly into the White House to kill Richard Nixon - possibly the first time an airliner was to be used as a flying bomb in a terrorist attack. Sam Bicke is a lonely, ineffectual incompetent who feels wronged by his family, friends, employers and the world in general, though his problems are largely of his own making and his petulant refusal to compromise what he sees as his 'values'.".