Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Peereddi I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

werefox08 Hugely under-rated movie. Made..way back in 2004. Sean Penn plays Sam Bicke..a guy who is unraveling mentally during the course of this extremely well made and interesting film. Part of Sams problem is he is not the sharpest tool in the shed. Yet he is fundamentally (almost obsessively) honest. When he starts to lose the important things..(marriage, job, respect), his mind enters free-fall. He has a fascination about the lies Richard Nixon told..so he could be President. What Sam does not understand is, its not only Nixon who is corrupt, but America. Eventually that truism also enters his slow intellect. From that point Sam needs to do something. O.K. he reasons i am only a grain of sand in this world..but i can be somebody. The movie has very few flaws and Naomi Watts, Don Cheadle and Jack Thompson are great in there supporting roles. I only heard about this movie a month ago (it was not a big hit), but, it is WAY above average. Penns performance is totally brilliant.

sergepesic This quiet, powerful movie is loosely based on the real events. Samuel Bicke, meek and obedient person with the intense hidden anger, is slowly unraveling. His marriage is dissolving, he hates his job and his obnoxious boss, the bank loan for starting a new business is rejected. Typical story of a man without his place in this world. God knows, there are hundreds of millions of people like him on this unfortunate planet. But, something made this man stand apart and try to kill the president Nixon. The attempt itself would be called inane if innocent people weren't killed.The tragic ending to a sad life story. This intense movie uses a perfect language to tell this story, so pertinent to the times we live in.More and more lost souls, and the future looks far away from rosy. Millions of question and none of the answers.

snarlah-1 The movie is losing popularity for exactly the same reason that I cannot sell books published in the 1990s and not sold any. It is not new and hot and full of current stars. That does not mean that it is no longer the same movie, it means that the attention span of the average viewer, like the inability to read of the average student, is fading away under our system of non-education. We mentored a young man out of here to graduate school. And his headmaster wanted him put out of school when he was in junior high school because the new way is not what I learned by; staying in school was considered to be important. Now we make children prep for the tests created by Neil Bush, who was doing poorly before his brother got into office. And how did George W. Bush become President? By lies. Not that he's the first, most of our leaders have lied to us.I call Sean Penn a hero because he is a fine actor who also cares enough about people to take his own boat down to New Orleans when the levees burst, the same levees that have not been fixed at all, so it will happen again. The police, or possibly the mercenaries we've hired at top dollar because we do not have many police, the National Guard is being used as soldiers, and we lack troops to fight our endless wars, turned him away at the border. He sneaked back in and rescued some people anyway. I admire him a whole lot.We refused aid from Cuba (I cannot imagine how they could even give us aid after what we've done to their economy since the boycott began), Venezuela, (which has oil money) because we didn't like Chavez (because we did not choose him, and you can't be a leader if we don't choose you), so we called his election illegal.His election was legal, it has been our elections that have been illegal, particularly the selection of Bush by his Republican Supreme Court (put in place by his father). A professor at Harvard Business School wrote a book saying that Bush would come in without his homework (because he is probably dyslexic, Barbara Bush told us that when Bush the First was President, though she did not say which son), and claim that the materials he needed at the library were not there. The professor checked the library. The materials were there and available. Bush is an alcoholic and a cocaine user who thought it was funny to use cocaine at his parents' vacation house in Kennebunkport, ME.The fact is, neither Bush the first or the second is from Texas, they are from Connecticut. Bush cheated his way into office, committed countless war crimes and is currently rolling around in the money he was given for all the bad decisions he made (or more likely that Cheney forced on him).And back to President Nixon--he should have gone to prison, but Ford was bribed to pardon him. Does anyone remember any of this? Reagan got a full state burial, when he should have died in prison for war crimes, and we have the nerve to have run a little trial after WWII called Nuremberg. We punished the Germans thoroughly, dropped atom bombs on Japan, and Nixon had a little thing called "The Side Show"--bombing and killing innocent Cambodians while pretending to end the war in Vietnam (a promise that got him elected). His actions softened the public so that Pol Pot could come down from the mountains and kill everyone who wore glasses--because that meant that they were intelligent.The movie is great, and anyone with an interest in world leaders should watch it.

rooee Niels Mueller's sole feature film director credit is this character study about tragic loner Sam Bicke (Sean Penn), a furniture salesman disillusioned with the dishonesty of the world he reluctantly inhabits. Loosely based on a true story, Mueller presents a convincing polemic on the back of bold characterisation. Forget subtexts and pregnant silences - Mueller's film is all about the power of expression.What it's not about is the assassination of Richard Nixon. I feel the title is not a sensible one - like Sam's slug-like boss (Jack Thompson), it's selling a different product. Do not expect a Jack Ryan-esquire heroic espionage thriller. This is, after all, the grimy Land of the Free of 1974, fed on a diet of Dickie Nixon promises and apocalyptic TV visions from Vietnam. Think Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation or Scorsese's Taxi Driver for its mood. But while those films may have lacked emotional warmth, The Assassination of Richard Nixon takes our anti-hero's plight almost into the realm of sentimentality. His scenes with his wife, Marie (Naomi Watts, with whom he memorably shared the screen in the previous year's 21 Grams), are an astonishing portrayal of the agonisingly pitiful.What seems at once like an exhilarating anti-capitalist diatribe turns into something far more moving: the fable of a lonely man. ("You miss me, don't you?" and "You love me, don't you?" he asks his ex-wife's dog - two things he cannot ask his ex-wife.) But also, fascinatingly, in the final reel Bicke is revealed to be not only deeply alone but deeply unhinged. When his brother (Michael Wincott - an excellent cameo) confronts him about a theft, Sam is forced to confront himself. Sam breaks down, becoming incomprehensible, ranting about racism, displacing responsibility for his crime onto the formless enemy of the honest man. Finally, he says sorry. This scene complicates Sam; it makes him human, not simply an alien observer of the troubled human condition.Disturbing, moving, cynical, slyly witty, and - horribly predictably - devastating.