Review – J. Edgar

So J. Edgar Hoover’s résumé consists of two items: “hates communists” and “is secretly gay”? This is yet another movie with no apparent audience. The treatment of the subject is too loving for anyone who remembers what he did – and tried to do – to this country. And for those who still recall the monster with some sense of fondness, this picture spends far too much time dwelling on the “idiosyncrasies” of his personal life. Further, Leonardo DiCaprio does a genuinely wretched job as a hero he doesn’t look like, sound like or act like. And though this is a matter of misdirected civic pride on my part, I thought the role of the Kansas City Massacre in the fortunes of the FBI was significantly underplayed. See if desperate