Review of The Post (2017) by Lambo442 — 02 Feb 2018

Don't even think of going into this movie without a basic knowledge of journalist jargon and the controversy surrounding the pentagon papers. It's like Spielberg is assuming we all have this understanding and refuses to put anything in layman's terms. Maybe even a short paragraph at the beginning to introduce the story or setting would have been nice. It was so boring that I left the cinema after half an hour.

And I'm a trained journalist with an interest in politics. Where's the drama? Where's the excitement? Is this what cinema has come to? Intellectual masturbation? Surely we go to the cinema to be entertained as well as informed. It's not so much the way the story is told as it probably couldn't be told any other way, its the fact that this subject has been made into a movie at all. I'm not saying I just want to see super heros pounding each other, but let's at least keep to the spirit of entertainment encapsulated within the birth of cinema.