The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)

The greatest movie ever made..!

Memorable, crazy movie

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

The Assassination of Richard Nixon is a striking psychological drama that stars Sean Penn, Don Cheadle and Naomi Watts.It is based on the story of would-be assassin Samuel Byck, who plotted to kill Richard Nixon in 1974.It was directed by Niels Mueller. Sam Bicke is a salesman for an office-supply company whose life is slowly beginning to unravel. His job is going nowhere.His wife,Marie has left him.His boss keeps pushing self-help books on him that make a mockery of his state of mind. One of Bicke's few friends is Bonny Simmons, an auto mechanic, and together they come up with an idea for a tire shop on wheels.While neither has the money to finance the project, Bicke has learned of a program for small-business loans instituted by President Richard Nixon, which he's certain will come through for him. But Bicke is denied his loan, which dovetails with his increasing suspicion of the president's Vietnam policies and a sudden interest in the "by any means necessary" political activism of the Black Panther Party. Sean Penn brings this obscure failure back to life in a vivid portrayal of a madman in the making, a madman who had a date with a gun and history.Also,the movie manages something quite remarkable, both a compassion for Bicke's wounded sense of life's betrayals, and stark revulsion for the personal logic of his bloody remedy.Although it doesn't hit Taxi Driver's level, it's still a discomfiting look at a man determined to leave his mark on the world and only to become a footnote.

I made this account specifically to tell you how bad this movie is.If you wanted to watch a really drawn out predictable movie on how someones unmotivated life leads them to be a killer, which doesn't really fit into the reason he became crazy and hatched the worst plan ever of crashing into the white house. This is a low budget movie with low budget result. Do not waste your time watching this movie do not waste your time watching this movieIf this is a true story its not worth writing a movie about it, a small fish in a big sea. Its just not a good movie. Its just not. go watch good will hunting.

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.

Another twitchy performance by Penn as a mousy loser who's so hopelessly pathetic that all the anti-capitalist, anti-racist, anti-whatsoever criticism that drives him to run amok feels rather toothless.Yes, the direction is quietly understated and the performances are okay, but the script is way too obvious in its depiction of a mental breakdown and Penn's one-note character becomes quite grating after a while.At least, Michael Douglas whacked out the right way in "Falling Down".5 out of 10 enlightening letters to Leonard Bernstein