Movie #2096 "Richard Jewell" (HBO movie)
I didn't like this movie much at all --- except for Sam Rockwell. I usually like Clint Eastwood films, but this one I think has problems. First, the guy who plays the lead is so odd, we aren't sure where he is coming from --- I get it if he's truly a shy person, but the way he is presented, living with his mom, doing very little without consulting her, etc. it is questionable how capable he is to be a security guard--- I thought that he had some mental problems --- and that isn't good to Eastwood's argument: that he IS capable of doing a good job that day as a security guy who found the bomb in the case. And the film takes, in my opinion, way too long for him to take a stand against what he is being set up for --- and if he would have said something earlier, he wouldn't have gotten mistreated as much as he did. Kathy Bates was nominated for this part? hmmmmm. It seems a pretty staple character in film generally, i.e. pretty much like a lot of mothers that cry through the whole film and try to give advice to her bullied son. Nothing new there. Finally, the FBI and journalists come across all weak and manipulative? ---don't need to see that right now when these two groups of people have been maligned so much in the past 4 years --- and the relationship between Wilde (journalist) and Hamm (FBI) is so shallow, it is hard to believe that is the lynchpin that causes the mistreatment of Jewell..... it is suspect and it seems that Eastwood's politics were coming into this film, maybe? Overall, I don't think we saw anything close to the real story here --- at least this viewer felt there was way more to the story than what was shown in this mediocre film. I give it a 3 out of 5
"RICHARD JEWELL" 2 hours, 11 mins 2019 rated R
Security guard Richard Jewell is an instant hero after foiling a bomb attack at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, but his life becomes a nightmare when the FBI leaks to the media that he is a suspect in the case.
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