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Directed By
Emilio Estevez
Written By:
Emilio Estevez
Cast:
Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Lindsay Lohan, Elijah Wood, William H. Macy, Helen Hunt, Christian Slater, Heather Graham, Laurence Fishburne, Freddy Rodriguez, Nick Cannon, Emilio Estevez, Martin Sheen, Shia LaBeouf, Jacob Vargas, Brian Geraghty, Joshua Jackson, Joy Bryant, Svetlana Metkina, Kip Pardue, David Krumholtz, Harry Belafonte, Mary Elizabeth Winstead
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Bobby (2006)
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No Altman
If anyone hoped that Emilio Estevez's lack of acting ability would be made up by his skills as an auteur, I'm sorry to say this proves you wrong.
A huge cast of names does not make up for a script that basically wishes it was Altman, but only accomplishes a muddled group of plots and characters we just don't get a chance to care about.
The centring force of the film should be Bobby Kennedy and his message of helping America be a better version of what it is. Instead, the clips of RFK giving speeches are intercut with strange stories about Mexican kitchen workers, a hotel managers having an affair, an upper class couple, a girl marrying a boy so he won't die in Vietnam, some kids on an LSD trip, a diva, some of Kennedy's staffers, and a couple of old dudes who seem to have no future other than to look back. These is a terribly idealized version of the 60's where dating across racial borders is the norm and people of all races are able to constantly have open discussions about their various forms of oppression. Give me a break.
Estevez certainly has a lot of friends, and I'm sure there were some good intentions behind this film, but he doesn't seem to have a sense of how to make a film. Instead he chooses to write a bunch of interesting scenes that have no link. He should watch 'Short Cuts' and 'Nashville' a few hundred times more and then try again. Oh, and next time he probably shouldn't put himself in the movie, as his performance is easily the weakest of the film.
In this cast of millions, we get a great look at what Lindsay Lohan is able to do when she is not destroying herself, what Demi Moore is capable of if more people gave her a chance, and that Shia LeBeouf can play nerdy.
The standouts for me would have to be Joshua Jackson and Nick Cannon as the two staffers who believe in Kennedy so completely that their worlds come crashing down around them in the wake of his assassination. These two actors are often forgotten for bigger names, or typecast into roles that we are comfortable seeing them in, but 'Bobby', for all its faults, makes us take notice. Hopefully Hollyweird will listen too.
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