What’s great about this movie was the performances by Frank Langella and Michael Sheen, more so with Sheen. Even though I’ve never seen Frost or Nixon before, but what the actors brought to their roles were so in-character that you would believe in these characters, didn’t matter if they existed in reality or not.
Frost when meeting Nixon always had this careful, humble and sincere respect towards Nixon; even after their interview sessions at their final rendezvous, there’s still that awkward silence from Frost and I thought that was very well played by Sheen.
The best interaction and dialogue came not in the interview, but that midnight phone call made by Nixon to Frost, they weren’t even in the same room and yet the explosion was there. Langella brought the script to life as he shouted them out in the empty, dark room.
Other players included Kevin Bacon and Matthew Macfadyen who turned in respectable performances but the same couldn’t really be said for Sam Rockwell and Oliver Platt as there weren’t anything impressive about their roles even though they didn’t do anything wrong. Platt however had the best comical lines.
And I thought Ron Howard was right to leave out any romance from the plot. The pace ran very well and the story or anything else for that matter was over done. Editing wise however was too predictable in the sense that the cuts came exactly in places where it should, and that was quite disappointing.
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