Many movies have been made of the events surrounding the Watergate scandal, All the King's Men probably being the most famous one. Mark Felt falls somewhere in the alright section amongst them. Liam Neeson, playing Mark himself, is the carrying force here. It solely focuses on the scandal from Mark's perspective, stripping away almost everything else. It's not necessarily a bad thing since the subject matter has been tackled in film before.
Something is still missing here, something that would have wowed me. It's a story a man who's torn between his loyalty to an institution that he has served for many years and his frustration of the corruption and the filth that is taking over it. There certainly is some of it here, but it seems that the more factual based storytelling plays a bigger role here. Luckily Neeson's portrayal of Mark Felt keeps the whole thing afloat and makes it an interesting watch.
Something is still missing here, something that would have wowed me. It's a story a man who's torn between his loyalty to an institution that he has served for many years and his frustration of the corruption and the filth that is taking over it. There certainly is some of it here, but it seems that the more factual based storytelling plays a bigger role here. Luckily Neeson's portrayal of Mark Felt keeps the whole thing afloat and makes it an interesting watch.