Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

TxMike I watched this at home on DVD from my public library. It is timely as almost the same thing is happening in the Washington today. It complements the 1976 movie "All the President's Men" which focuses on the role of the Washington Post reporters.In 1972 several man were caught breaking into the Democratic party headquarters at the Watergate hotel. As the FBI began to look into it there was evidence that the men had ties to the White House and to Nixon himself. Liam Neeson as Mark Felt, a 30-year FBI man who was the Associate FBI director under Hoover, gets involved. Then Hoover unexpectedly died but Felt was not appointed as interim FBI Director. Maybe that helped him decide to do what he did.Stifled by orders from the White House to complete the Watergate investigation quickly, Felt used the power of the press, purposely leaking information to a reporter he had known for some time, by use of public pay phones or clandestine meetings. Eventually pressure cracked the cases, many of Nixon's staff went to prison, Nixon himself resigned in shame.Neeson is great in this role, some think the movie moves too slowly and is too long but I think it was ideally made. I was a young adult in 1972, I remember Watergate and Nixon's resignation. This movie is welcome to fill in who became known as "deep throat."

punisherversion1 Mark Felt The Man Who Brought Down The White House: Written and Directed by Peter LandesmanFrom the director of Parkland and Concussion comes the story of the man who was Deep Throat for the Washington Post to help bring down the Nixon administration. He is played by infamous ass kicker Liam Neeson. This is a more understated role than the usual action fare that he stars in. This is a role that seems like it would have been played by Clint Eastwood in the 90s. He still has a very commanding presence and his character is a very straight and narrow old school FBI agent. It makes what he does in the end so out of character. But the problem with this movie is it is missing large chunks of the story. It spends a large portion of the time focusing on the Watergate break in and the complete undermining of the investigation from the White House. You get brief glimpses of his home life but right in the middle of the movie it changes focus to his home life. It feels like they took two different stories and instead of blending them together, it tells one story and then it starts on a completely different one entirely. It is very disjointed. Then it switches back to the first story in time to thoroughly confuse the audience. It reminded me a lot of this director's movie Concussion where it starts on one story and changes courswe midway through with a very deflated ending. This movie despite having the magnetic Liam Neeson at its center is really sort of bland. I give this movie a D.

Gordon-11 This film tells the story of the deputy chief of the FBI, who is not given the promotion that he thought he would get. He then goes on to expose the biggest political scandal of all time.It is interesting that this film does not concentrate on external events at all, so you don't get to see who the seven people who got arrested are, or what evidence the agents have uncovered. It only deals with what Mark Felt have seen or heard, so most of the film occurs in the office. Because of this, viewers who are unfamiliar with the Watergate scandal will have to read about it in advance in order to fully understand the plot. It is a thrilling story, especially the fact that Mark Felt must have endured enormous pressure during that time, and all the subsequent years of his life.

webwizardbe Good luck I got to watch this movie for free. Really don't pay for it. It's not even a good history lesson.This movie is about guys smoking and talking in bureaus and sometimes a car. We all know about Watergate so at least I expected a bigger connection on a human level. For instance the relation with his wife, his daughter, there's a story to be told there. And there is more to tell about Mark Felt himself. The story is also one sided, you only see it from his point, other parties don't get really involved.The most interesting part of the movie are the supporting roles, all "old" men who played minor roles in big movies before, so I played the guessing game, that's the guy from...Conclusion, this kind of crappy boring movie is where actors go to die. Although, I still like Liam as narrator in docu's.