Eastwood's Biggest Flop

I went and saw J. Edgar because I always like Clint Eastwood as a director. Unfortunately it's a big disappointment, and probably one of Eastwood's worst movies in my opinion.

Watching this movie is like reading a biography without any punch lines or great quotes. The flick is kind of disjointed with flash backs between Hoover's younger and older days. But there's absolutely no climax, no suspense, no thread sewing all the parts together. And it's plain boring!

Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of fine acting - from Naomi Watts, Judi Dench, Josh Lucas and, particularly, Hoover's love interest Clyde Polson played by the dashing Armie Hammer (the twins in Social Network). I never understood Hollywood's fascination with Leonardo Di Caprio as an actor, and his performance in this movie is once again overdone and exaggerated as he did in his other biographic epic - portraying Howard Hughes in The Aviator. It scares me to think about sitting through another two movies he's currently filming - The Great Gatsby and Sinatra.

I also thought the make-up in this movie is not particularly well done - too contrived and unnatural. But the same happened in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain and it ended up winning a lot of awards!

Clint Eastwood definitely can do much better!