Goodnight, and Good Luck...

...at some random NY theater, right after screening Ben-Hur.

Yeah, same day. That is a lot of movie. I just posted two reviews here tonight, and I'm not really up for another one, but anyway, yeah, I enjoyed it. It seemed a little slight, really, even though I knew it would only be 90 minutes. And while I was fine with it only being 90 minutes (I had just sat through 3.5 hours of Ben-Hur!), the short running time seemed to lessen the impact a bit. Like, how much could a film really do for me in only 1.5 hours?

Strathairn was great, and the ensemble work was terrific, but I can't muster up much enthusiasm for the film as a whole. It seemed like almost half of it was made of stock footage, and I felt at the end like I didn't get much out of actually viewing the film than I'd gotten already from just hearing about it. But them's the breaks when one waits till the last minute to see movies. There was just a kind of "been there, done that" feeling in it for me. Like I was just watching a history lesson, or a "stick it to McCarthy!" sermon. Which is fine. But hardly groundbreaking. It actually seemed like it might've been the 2 hour pilot to a TV show or something. A new news show, perhaps? Hmmm...

But regardless, it's a good film, and it's timely. Definitely worth a look.

My grade: B