Review – Bobby

Wow, has it ever been my week for disappointing movies. First Night at the Museum and now this. The thought here must have been “ensemble piece,” but instead it comes across as a gaggle of Hollywood types (particularly “writer” / director Emilio Estevez) treating the hours before Robert Kennedy’s assassination as their own personal vanity project. As a result, what could have been a poignant story of the small lives affected by big events instead becomes a festival of the worst of the “look at me” school of acting. Combine that with a stiff – and in some spots downright stupid – script and some bad editing decisions, and this turns into a poor entry in the long series of movies made about the lives and times of the Kennedys. Mildly amusing