Review of Trumbo (2007) by Patrick D — 21 Sep 2016

Enjoyable enough, with highlights being Bryan Cranston's performance and a real sense of authenticity when it comes to sets, costumes and the general feel of the film. It starts off as an examination of Red Scare hysteria and becomes a movie about movies, which to be honest, I felt was a little less interesting.

It becomes a tour of the Golden Age of Hollywood, which is fine, but there's definitely missed potential here; in doing so, they sped through a lot of time and it becomes a sort of "Forrest Gump" tour rather than a fleshed out story.

I like these sort of movies a lot, but it definitely could have been a more thoughtful character piece than it ended up being. Still, for anyone with an interest in 1950s America, especially McCarthyism and classic Hollywood, or just a general interest in movie-making in general, this one's pretty good.