It's been a year and a week since Webber posted about this movie giving it a positive review and recommending it to anyone. And I have to echo his statements, more or less. This was a good movie. I think that to this day Richard Nixon has been lampooned and criticized a bit more heavily than he deserves to have been (my own political opinions notwithstanding), at least compared with the number of other corrupt politicians and world leaders that have graced us with their presence at one time or another. But this movie manages to depict him as a flawed and lonely man. Whether or not you go into this movie thinking that Nixon was an evil asshole, you'll probably come out of it with a better appreciation for the human side of the disgraced former president. Granted, this is just a movie - Nixon could have been a total douche bag in real life, but through the magic of historical nonfiction, you'd never come to that conclusion based on this film alone. Another great offering from Ron Howard, another movie checked off my backlog.
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