I genuinely like it- Hollywood had a run in the late 70s and early 80s of really bloated, overlong prestige movies and this was one of the last of them, but if you have a few hours to spend it is pretty good. Warren Beatty had live interviews with real people spliced throughout which is pretty cool because it helps sort of shade in what is otherwise a historical drama (like Titanic) but based on historical figures. It's not perfect, but for the time it was made (and the times we are in now), it's solid. You can do a double feature and watch "October (Ten Days that Shook the World)" afterwards, which is based on the book Reed wrote during the Revolution.
I genuinely like it- Hollywood had a run in the late 70s and early 80s of really bloated, overlong prestige movies and this was one of the last of them, but if you have a few hours to spend it is pretty good. Warren Beatty had live interviews with real people spliced throughout which is pretty cool because it helps sort of shade in what is otherwise a historical drama (like Titanic) but based on historical figures. It's not perfect, but for the time it was made (and the times we are in now), it's solid. You can do a double feature and watch "October (Ten Days that Shook the World)" afterwards, which is based on the book Reed wrote during the Revolution.