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Simply Perfect

Please don't spend money on this.

one of my absolute favorites!

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Back when newspapers were at their peak in terms of journalism and readership, an old woman by the name of Katherine Graham helped The Washington Post to become a household name in news media by uncovering the Pentagon Papers, a series of documents written by the government during the Vietnam war that Ben Bradlee discovers. It's a little slow moving but gets interesting as it gets better and better. At the end of the movie, we see the start of the Watergate break-in which precedes the events of All The President's Men, another good movie worth watching after you're done enjoying The Post.

As an Englishman I don't blame my American cousins for wanting to expose evil and wrongdoing by former senior politicians. But this film actually made me feel a bit of sympathy for the past Presidents and their cronies who were being tried in their absence here. But my main feeling watching this film was boredom caused by the actors repeating the same sentiment relentlessly for around 90 minutes. And the lack of visual variety/ dull locations. It was all summed up for me in the scene when they all looked amazed when peering into a cardboard box. You'd think they were looking at the contents of Tutankhamen tomb when all that was visible was a stack of A4 paper. I usually like to watch films at least twice but once was more than enough with this one.

This was a pretty decent movie, albeit a bit boring. But that's where it ends. I'm not sure what all the hype is about - because people also don't like Trump and they didn't like Nixon? Tom Hanks was good, Meryl Streep was far overrated, the movie was pretty predictable, regardless of it you knew what the story was from the 70s.

In the movie: Nixon was furious about the Papers' release. In reality: Nixon was intially unfazed because the Papers tarnished his Democratic predecessors. In the movie: McNamara tries to stop the Post from running the story. In reality: He supported publication. In the movie: The Post's decision to print inspires other newspapers. In reality: Other newspapers published the documents based on the leakers' distribution plan.Long ago in a galaxy far far away...