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Between the film’s soundtrack, including music contemporary to the film’s period, and the historical images of RFK, “Bobby” harkens back to a more stylized cinematic era—that of Oliver Stone?...
Instead of “JFK’s” multi-layered political intrigue, Estevez provides little moral gray area in “Bobby”—bad is bad, good is good, and RFK is canonized as the next American saint. Although Estevez’s immense admiration for RFK remains quite evident in the black-and-white images he selects and the words he writes, the bulk of the film leaves something to be desired. “Bobby” leaves you unsatisfied. Even Ashton Kutcher’s humorous stint...
...RFK (FX, Aug. 25, 8 p.m. E.T.) at least focuses on the less familiar monogram: that of Robert Francis Kennedy (Linus Roache), who was a Mob-busting Attorney General and cold warrior under his brother, then ran for President on an antiwar, civil rights platform in 1968, only to be cut down himself. (His years as A.G. fly by during the credits, like scenes from another movie.) And the film poses some intriguing questions: Was R.F.K. a cold opportunist or a born-again idealist? What made...
...answers are believable--pat, even--but unsatisfying. Robert, RFK muses, feared that he "caused" his brother's murder by antagonizing the Mob or the Cubans, even that he subconsciously wished for his brother's death. (All this is hashed out in overwrought "debates"--which take place in R.F.K.'s head--between Roache and Martin Donovan as the ghost of J.F.K.) Did Robert want the presidency for himself? For his family? The standard answer, given here, is that, moved by Vietnam and urban unrest, he grew to want it for all of us. But his transformation feels mechanical, dictated...
...Coles' office walls bear images of RFK--as well as those of labor organizer Cesar Chavez and Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was killed by El Salvadoran military...