Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House 2017

6.2 / 10   479 vote(s)
PG-13
Drama History Thriller

The story of Mark Felt, who under the name "Deep Throat" helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1974.

Homepage http://markfeltmovie.com/
Release Date 2017-09-28
Runtime 1h 43m
Directors Peter Landesman, Adam Kimmel
Producers Marc Butan, Giannina Facio, Anthony Katagas, Peter Landesman, Steve Richards, Jay Roach, Ridley Scott, Peter Guber, Steven Shareshian, Jeffrey Vinik, Colin Wilson, Michael Schaefer, Deepak Nayar, Des Carey, Nik Bower, Yale Badik
Writer Peter Landesman

Liam Neeson is fine in the role of Mark Felt, and the subject matter itself is deeply intriguing, but is dealt with in such an odd way. Bad odd. It is essentially a sequence of disparate scenes with no connective tissue other than that they are about the same conspiracy, which unfolds very quickly in a straight line with no consequences felt... Felt... Ohhh. I see what I did there.

Maybe for a diehard political biopic fan this could be the way to go, or someone who wasn’t aware Watergate ever happened and wanted some hard and fast facts, but for me, it was only okay.

Final rating:★★½ - Not quite for me, but I definitely get the appeal.

Gimly