Richard Jewell (2019)
American security guard Richard Jewell (Paul Walter Hauser) saves thousands of lives from an exploding bomb at the 1996 Olympics, but is vilified by journalists and the press who falsely report that he was a terrorist. (imdb)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Directed By: Clint Eastwood
Written By: Billy Ray, Marie Brenner
Starring: Kathy Bates, Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde, Jon Hamm, Nina Arianda, Paul Walter Hauser
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Richard Jewell belongs to 9 collections
1. Based On True Events (public: moderated by Spunkie - 10 stars)
2. True crime (public: moderated by djross - 8 stars)
3. 1990s period film (public: moderated by djross - 2 stars)
4. Olympics (public: moderated by djross - 1 star)
5. Director at least 80 years old (public: moderated by djross - 1 star)
6. -On My Radar (public: moderated by KasperL - 1 star)
7. 2020 Academy Awards- Nominated Feature Films (Non-Documentary) (public: moderated by joel-w-m - 1 star)
8. 92nd Academy Awards: Nominated (public: moderated by 5Z5qjRCfM2 - 1 star)
9. 2020 (private: sproost)
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Paul Walter Hauser nails it in showing us how cumbersome weakgiftedness can be but, on the other side, strong and protecting at the same time.
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The broad outlines of this tale may be true (and maddening), but Eastwood falls victim to a screenplay which personifies its contempt for the FBI and media in Hamm and Wilde - both actors struggle with cartoonishly exaggerated caricatures, counterbalanced by a haloed Hauser and Bates (though there is at least an attempt to make Jewell himself somewhat well-rounded). Film is ultimately stolen by Rockwell, who brings a subtlety and shading to his shyster lawyer which is missing from the text.
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Jopa22 | 79 24% |
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Ross | 75 78% |
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The film draws a very clear line between good and evil. It may not support the facts, but it makes for a great and entertaining film. I loved Hauser and Rockwell.
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okay movie
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It's nice to see old Eastwood (who directed J Edgar) shedding light on the FBI again. Paul Walter Hauser seems to be a very gifted and underrated actor.
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With a great cast and solid directing, "Richard Jewell" is another good film to add to Clint Eastwood's directing filmography. Paul Walter Hauser and Sam Rockwell are terrific, but it's Kathy Bates' performance that steals the show. The film depicts the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing and is based on the "Vanity Fair" article "American Nightmare: The Ballad Of Richard Jewell". Although the film was considered a box office flop, this is still one of Eastwood's better modern directed movies.
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Hmm, this all takes place in July ... the Macarena was unleashed on us in August. Total nonsense from Eastwood. 30% of the script was people saying Richard Jewell.
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Hamm and Wilde are both pitched way too high, but Paul Walter Hauser is perfectly sensitive and understated as Jewell. (Kathy Bates and Sam Rockwell are equally excellent.) Eastwood has an impressively deft touch, and instead of leaning into the film as tragedy, he's willing to have some fun on account Jewell's account; much of the film plays like a legal parody about a lawyer whose client is a massive bootlicker.
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It's uneven, and the plot could be trimmed, but the great performances and deft direction are hard to argue with. I don't let politics affect my opinion of movies, and I'm not doing it this time either, but I feel its message on the court of public opinion is timely.
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Despite hosting a trio of great performances from Rockwell, Bates, and Hauser, Richard Jewell fails to deliver its message about being railroaded by the media thanks in large part to its own railroading of reporter Kathy Scruggs and the rest of the news media. The fact that Jewell was being investigated, whether Eastwood likes it or not, was in fact newsworthy and deserved reporting. The film cannot practice what it preaches in the slightest, and that damages its credibility greatly in my eyes.
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This is a good movie in a lot of ways: the pacing, screenplay, and many of the performances. But in a way that sticks out like a sore thumb, it is very clearly an Eastwood film: the antithesis to whatever person/thing Eastwood is defending (in this case, Jewell, his antithesis being the media and the government) is presented as a pack of incredulous, almost bumbling fools. Yes, Jewell is the good guy, but his bad guy lacks menace and credibility due to its own Eastwoodian incompetence.
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Eastwood at this fuck it point of his life is working relentlessly, racing to preserve and perhaps restore American pride through a cinematic record. With a deep skepticism for authority and yet admiration for a sense of duty, he works in a space more timeless than the politics of the day (I remember a time when liberals were distrustful of intelligence institutions. we love em now wtf?) Sometimes regressive yet always empathetic.
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Viewed December 13, 2019.
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Hauser plays Jewell perfectly and the film conveys a sense of dread that comes with false accusations pretty well, but the portrayal of the press is pretty ham-fisted and the actual investigation elements of the story was barebones. On the other hand, the film makes a valid point that these charges lacked a foundation to begin with and it ends on good catharsis for Richard after this event change his view on how security is conducted. Boring cinematography aside, this is a decent film.
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| Average Percentile 46.9% from 148 Ratings |  |
