Review – All the President's Men

This was big stuff back in the day when the events upon this were part of recent memory, but now I’m guessing you have to be a journalism nerd to get much out of it. Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) work together to unravel the cable knit sweater of the Watergate scandal that eventually toppled the Nixon administration. The flow of the story is choppy, filled with aha! moments that seem like the newspaper writer’s equivalent of “Col. Mustard in the hotel suite with the screwdriver.” Despite its dated awkwardness, I got a kick out of it. But then I’m a member of the dying breed of people who relish good reporting and enjoy watching its creators (or at least the Hollywood versions thereof) at work. Mildly amusing