Review – Milk

Sean Penn stars in Gus Van Sant’s biopic of gay rights leader Harvey Milk, and oddly enough it doesn’t turn out to be as terrible as it sounds like it would be. Penn does a good job in the role, and he’s got a reasonably good script to work with. I was a little disappointed that the back half of the movie dwelled as constantly as it did on the animosity between Milk and Dan White. The bizarre murders were interesting, but Milk’s death was such a small part of his life that I would have appreciated more time on his accomplishments and less on his end. Though The Times of Harvey Milk is still a much better movie, people with no patience for documentaries might find this a reasonable substitute. Mildly amusing