I love this movie so much

Simply Perfect

Captivating movie !

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

If there's one reason of why this movie was actually good and turned out to be good is because of Sean Penn he pretty much owns the film and the last act of the movie is probably the strongest although i think the title kills the movie a bit because it's kinda wrong in my opinion? People might except something more instead of a Drama movie with 20 minutes of Political Thriller or Propaganda or in this case call it whatever you want. But i think the ending matters a lot because it showed why Penn went insane and why he wanted to throw the plane on the white house. And i think the rest of the supporting cast did a pretty cool job as well. But the movie was a hit thanks to a good leading performance!!

One more time, I have watched a movie, a great one that so underrated that it makes me sick.This movie is so good. It reminds of Taxi Driver, but I do prefer this one although the other one was great), because I think here we have a very close look to what can make an honest, decent man go wild. Then you understand what the system do to the people, and although I completely disagree with Sam Bicke's attitude, I can understand why he did it. I we can see the human being behind it, maybe a regular person can become mad if everything turns against him.Sean Penn is acting was no less than awesome! I got surprised and disappointed how could him not be nominated for almost anything! What happens with the guys of the Critic Board, Academy, Golden Globe or similar retarded people. We have here a masterpiece, a great achievement. Penn just gave another brilliant performance, and you didn't give a damn. Shame on you. One of Penn's best!This movie is very great and I truly recommend it!

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.

I'm not sure what it is about Sean Penn that inspires this in me, but there's a lot of me that really doesn't want to like him. I approach pretty much every movie he's in with a pre-conceived chip on my shoulder, and then the movie starts and Penn proceeds to knock the chip off my shoulder with yet another brilliant performance. "The Assassination of Richard Nixon" was no exception. Based on real events (and from what I've been able to dig up on the events the movie is for the most part a remarkably accurate portrayal), this movie may feature Penn's strongest performance. I thought he was great in "Milk" and "I Am Sam" and "Mystic River" but this performance can't be ranked far behind those, it it can be ranked behind them at all.Here, Penn plays Sam Bicke (the real person on whom the character is based spelled the last name Byck). Bicke is a guy who struggles with life. As the movie opens we find that his marriage has fallen apart and that he has trouble holding down a job (apparently having been fired by his own brother at the family's tire store.) But Bicke is also someone who can't take responsibility for his failures. He blames those around him, but never himself. Developing a dream to open a mobile tire-selling business, he applies for a government loan to get started, but gets turned down. As he spirals farther and farther out of control (and Penn depicted this gradual emotional and mental erosion brilliantly) he becomes convinced that now the US Government is out to get him, and in revenge he concocts a plan to hijack an airplane and force the pilots to fly into the White House to kill President Nixon. It's one assassination attempt that I wasn't familiar with until watching this movie.Bicke is a strange character - and not just because he's unbalanced. For a while (for most of the movie actually) you feel a degree of sympathy for him. His life has gone to hell, and while he blames everyone around him he doesn't actually hurt them, although he rather creepily stalks his ex-wife both at her home and her workplace. But the story manages to pull that sympathy away (probably starting with the scene in which he kills his dog, the only creature in his life who actually seemed to care about him) and by the end he becomes little more than a monster as he storms an airplane and embarks on a shooting rampage. The emotional impact of the movie (and the gut reaction against Bicke as his plan develops) undoubtedly is heightened by the eerie similarity of his plot with that of the 9/11 hijackers, although the movie was apparently conceived well before 9/11, so the connection is just in the gut of the viewer but wasn't in the minds of the movie-makers, at least at first.Penn dominates the movie. The rest of the cast is solid, and there are no disappointments that come up because of the cast. You wonder for a while how this is going to get to where the title implies it's going (also implied by repeated video clips of Nixon speaking which apparently convince Bicke that the President is his enemy) but the buildup is interesting and the movie (at 1:35) isn't really long enough to ever start to drag. Overall, it's a very well done movie about a little known historical event. (7/10)