Joe Palka

A perfectly miserable film. Lincoln's life, truth to power, was compelling enough without conjuring pallid plot lines that are an insult to our greatest president! Particularly grating is the uproarious laughter accompanying each of Henry Fonda's idiotic lines. Save your time for Raymond Massey in Abe Lincoln in Illinois. Corny, but the second hour is devastatingly beautiful. Felt like I was watching the real Lincoln. Massey's portrayal is equal to Daniel Day Lewis'. One star because they would let me give a half star.

The Outfit is frankly a piece of junk. Buoyed solely by Mark Rylance’s restrained performance. Oh, you’ll have the ending pretty well figured easily in the first hour. What perplexes is why the characters do not convey their predicament to each other to come to a resolution in the first 45 minutes. The final death scene is cringeworthy. You’ll read lovely things about it because it’s oh so British, without being British at all. Don’t be fooled.

I have read the book and enjoyed a much preferred 1998 BBC version. I am incredulous that this was considered a best picture. Although Finney is an ideal Jones, the movie wastes too much time with frenetic visuals, not at all humorous, including a befuddling hunt scene that seemed to go in forever.

I'm sorry, but D5B is an insult to beautiful movies in the past that have tried to focus sharply on a much disregarded point of view. Over-rated by so much of the critical community it demeans the best of Lee's work and much insults a fine team of actors, compelled to be so over the top, it's cringeworthy. Just for the sake of argument, I'm a liberal with a Black Lives Matters bumpersticker on his car. I sympathize with the message, but the movie is an abomination.