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I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Well written story and great performance by Liam Nelson as Mark Felt.

This review of Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House is spoiler free.*** (3/5)PROTESTERS ON STREETS. Feuds between national newspapers and the President. President Nixon's re-election. The death of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. The subject of 1970's America isn't the type of thing that comes to mind in today's standards but modern directors have always found a way to make even the broadest, or the spikiest moments seem smoother through digestible dialogue, killer instinct directing and quick editing to make it action-packed. In January we had Steven Spielberg's The Post a film about the constant feuds between The New York Times and The Washington Post, though Spielberg spent most of the film's running time within the press offices it was still one of the more gripping political films in recent years, and like Spielberg it didn't come without flashy editing. And stellar performances. Joining Spielberg just two months later is writer-director Peter Landesman who previously centered on politics with his 2013 debut Parkland; about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. His latest Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House centers around the secrets of the FBI, more specifically associate director Mark Felt. Set in 1972 after the death of J. Edgar Hoover, Mark (played by Liam Neeson) is at the hair's breadth of becoming the FBI's new director, his fierce loyalty was only matched by his brutal ambition to change America, after he is denied the job and only given a short time to solve the mystery of the Watergate Scandal that took place only a few days before, in the meantime armed (not with a gun) with information, evidence and confidential files he leaks information to The Washington Post.Story-wise this has been done before, the scandal of Watergate and it's sloppy cover-up, the dramatic perspectives of The Washington Post's journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein who were helped to uncover this mystery, the story was previously seen in 1976's All the President's Men and here there's at least as much dramatic intrigue tucked away into the 103 minute running time. Neeson owns the screen with his stunning performance but for a while it seems that this is all Mark Felt has going for it as unlike Spielberg, Oliver Stone's Nixon or indeed director Alan J. Pakula, here Landesman lacks the distinct killing blow for such a subject and as a writer he does a good job condensing a sprawling conspiracy into a digestible feature though he winds up overcooking the plot ultimately missing important points. Yet as a political drama it's solidly engrossing, leaving just enough dramatic intrigue to make a stand. VERDICT For all its flaws this is a solidly engrossing political drama that's at least good enough to make a powerful stand.

I watched this at home on DVD from my public library. It is timely as almost the same thing is happening in the Washington today. It complements the 1976 movie "All the President's Men" which focuses on the role of the Washington Post reporters.In 1972 several man were caught breaking into the Democratic party headquarters at the Watergate hotel. As the FBI began to look into it there was evidence that the men had ties to the White House and to Nixon himself. Liam Neeson as Mark Felt, a 30-year FBI man who was the Associate FBI director under Hoover, gets involved. Then Hoover unexpectedly died but Felt was not appointed as interim FBI Director. Maybe that helped him decide to do what he did.Stifled by orders from the White House to complete the Watergate investigation quickly, Felt used the power of the press, purposely leaking information to a reporter he had known for some time, by use of public pay phones or clandestine meetings. Eventually pressure cracked the cases, many of Nixon's staff went to prison, Nixon himself resigned in shame.Neeson is great in this role, some think the movie moves too slowly and is too long but I think it was ideally made. I was a young adult in 1972, I remember Watergate and Nixon's resignation. This movie is welcome to fill in who became known as "deep throat."

I was unfamiliar with the Watergate scandal before watching this movie. I am still unfamiliar with it. The storytelling of this movie is beyond awful; its structure is terrible. It was made by writers and a director that clearly lack talent. Furthermore, Liam Neeson's deliberate pitch-shifting was irritating.