Richard Jewell

This is a film I have been anticipating since I saw the trailer. As I've said before, I love biopic and his seemed like an interesting watch and for the most part, this really was a great watch.

Let's start with the good and the big thing is the casting is brilliant. Paul Walter Hauser is perfect as Richard Jewell. He manages to capture his awkwardness and naivety perfectly and his actually looks a bit like him. Sam Rockwell, however, is the best thing about this film. He's charismatic as ever and delivers a powerhouse performance. Kathy Bates is also a nice addition and Jon Hamm does well as the cop wanting to jail Jewell for the bombings.

I also love the production to this film. You instantly believe this is set in 1996 especially with the camerawork used by reporters and you can tell Clint Eastwood really wanted to get this right because he's really goes into real detail how Richard Jewell discovers the bomb, how it affects his life afterwards and how his life changes once his labelled as a suspect and I thought Clint Eastwood did a great job at capturing all of these moments and the bomb discovery and explosion scenes were brilliantly filmed. You could feel the tension and anxiety once that bomb was discovered.

However whilst I was impressed with the movie, there one real disappointment and that is I really feel this should have actually been a film about Sam Rockwells character Watson Bryant. He's a much more impactful and interesting character whereas Richard Jewell is quite frustrating, annoying and at times quite boring.

In fact when the film goes in depth in exploring Jewells life in the aftermath of the bombing, Jewell just makes the scenes quite boring. Bryant is trying to Jewell out and he just becomes more and more unlikable as it goes on and that's a big problem when your main character, who the film is named after is the worst thing about it.

Overall this is a really well made with brilliant actors and performances but unfortunately the character of Richard Jewell just brings this down quite a few notches and I can't imagine myself rewatching it again.