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Bobby
EMAILPRINTMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer / The Weinstein Company
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 31 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by: Emilio Estevez
Directed by: Emilio Estevez
Release Date:
Theatrical: November 17, 2006
DVD: April 10, 2007
Running Time: 120 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for language, drug content and a scene of violence
Starring Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Lindsay Lohan, William H. Macy, Martin Sheen, Christian Slater, Joshua Jackson, and Ashton Kutcher
This examination of the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy centers around 22 people who were also at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles the night he was killed.
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Why such a structurally scattered movie should hang together at all is a mystery. That it does more than that, that it works brilliantly, is a miracle, or at the very least the product of unquantifiable causes.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
For all its unevenness, Bobby is a powerful, poignant movie and its ending -- played over a long excerpt of one of RFK's most compassionate speeches, voiced with none of the cliches of political rhetoric -- was, for me, the movie year's single most devastating sequence.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
It's a sideways view of a national trauma. The large cast includes standout performances from such unlikelies as Demi Moore, playing an alcoholic crooner, and Estevez himself, as her long-suffering husband. Everyone in this film is powerful.
Read Full Review >Premiere Scott Warren
Alll in all, however, Estevez has pulled together the best political drama, fiction or otherwise, in recent memory.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Though Estevez's achievement doesn't quite live up to his ambitions -- the climax of Altman's "Nashville" (1975) evokes the same brutal loss of innocence to more shattering effect -- it still contains enough powerful moments to balance the weaker sections.
Read Full Review >Variety Deborah Young
Emilio Estevez's Bobby is a passionate outcry for peace and justice in America that becomes deeply involving by the final climactic scene.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
So keenly felt and so deeply imagined I couldn't help but be moved, even grateful for its bleeding-heart nostalgia.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Bobby, even if it suffers from a few silly scenes, gets more right than it does wrong.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Josh Rosenblatt
The movie isn't about Kennedy; rather, Kennedy is the sun around which all the other planets of the film revolve. And like some epic Louis B. Mayer picture from the Thirties, Bobby has a thousand stars in its galaxy, some of them great (Fishburne, Rodríguez), some of them not (Wood, Hunt), and one of them brilliant (Hopkins).
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
This is simply too vast a task for a filmmaker as inexperienced as Estevez. Compared with, say, Robert Altman's similar but far more complex "Nashville," Bobby mostly comes off as a Hollywood public service announcement: passionate, righteous and strikingly removed from reality.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Despite its flaws, its intriguing premise leaves us haunted by thoughts of "What if?"
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Ray Bennett
Whether or not Bobby Kennedy was the man his supporters believed him to be, the film makes a persuasive case that something important in America was silenced when he was gunned down.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
When you hear his (Robert Kennedy's) patient, meditative speeches, from which every note of demagoguery or pandering has been purged, you glimpse the film Mr. Estevez set out to make -- the one you may wish you were watching.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Edelstein
Despite the clunkiness, Estevez's commitment to his father's generation’s idealism (and its murder) commands respect.
Read Full Review >Empire Angie Errigo
A remarkable ensemble in an uneven patchwork of loss, longing and the urgent necessity of a societal rethink.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
For all its flaws, though, Bobby is still moving. Not so much with its indifferent characters, but rather with the overall mood of a common hope crushed into shapeless grief. That painful historical moment is worth revisiting, as is the image of the man whose death occasioned it.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Bobby coasts along on a dread, and sorrow, it doesn't earn.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
The film has virtually nothing to say about the man, or about much of anything, really. It's a sketchbook trying to pass as a tapestry.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
The resulting finished project is a series of skits performed by famous people doing favors for a friend, and it works about as well as one might expect from such an endeavor.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
Just when you think you've got a handle on the central characters in Bobby, yet more of them appear: The thing is a little like the stateroom scene in "A Night at the Opera."
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
Fascinating, even when it's fascinatingly bad.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker David Denby
Estevez has made a vague gesture at a large, metaphoric structure without having the dramatic means to achieve it. His choreography of the panic and misery in the hotel after the shooting is impressive, and some of the actors do fine in their brief roles. But his script never rises above earnest banality, and we are constantly being taught little lessons in tolerance and humanity:
Read Full Review >Newsweek David Ansen
You don't have to have lived through the period to find this wrenching. And you don't have to doubt Estevez's sincerity to find it emotionally opportunistic.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Bobby has its heart in the right place (on its sleeve). But it doesn't have its screenplay anywhere - or at least, anywhere near the heft that its subject demands.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Tests your patience to the breaking point -- maybe beyond.
Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust
It's an ambitious film drenched in sincerity and oozing with nostalgia that, despite the energy provided by its title icon via archival footage, falls flat dramatically in nearly every other way.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Jim Ridley
Bobby can be seen clearly for what it is--an "Airport" movie with the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy as the central calamity and an all-star cast deployed like multiple George Kennedys.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Scott Foundas
The only character who emerges as more than an ideological mouthpiece, and nearly saves the movie, is the Ambassador's resident hairstylist, who masks her faded beauty with a thick coat of eye shadow and an overteased hairdo. I kept wondering who this deeply sad, earthy actress was, making so much out of so little, until I realized it was Sharon Stone in the most naked performance she's ever given without taking her clothes off.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Estevez means well. But having your heart in the right place is no excuse for insipid ineptitude.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.1 (out of 10) based on 76 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
C S. gave it a7:
Decent film - some stories are less engaging than others - but all in all I enjoyed it. Great acting for the most part. And ignore the person below..the tripping scene was pretty realistic - always hard to portray the acid experience but not a bad attempt at all - and a very funny scene
Dennis P. gave it a3:
The only worthwhile part of "Bobby" was RFK's anti-violence speech at the end. Unfortunately, the previous 2 hours involve pointless scenes of people buying shoes, getting haircuts and taking about baseball. You also get the most ridiculous LSD trip in movie history. The story of Bobby Kennedy deserves a much better film than this.
Mark K. gave it a3:
Viewers beware -- this is a STINKER! The trite technique of having disconnected storylines weave together fails as does the big-name list of actors. Ugh. The only good part of the movie is its end.
C M. gave it a9:
don't let the jaded, cynical critics put you off. This movie gives you a perfect slice of life on the day RFK was killed. It transports you back to that time,if a bit sentimentally, and indeed, as Martin Sheen's character says in the film, shows the day America lost it's heart. The performances are all marvelous as well as the sountrack and the stories of a moment in time in all these people's lives is most compelling. Don't miss it.
Twyla S. gave it a10:
I am 55 and I still believe in the dream that we can all live together in peace. Emilio Estevez communicated this very well in this picture. "Bobby" speaks well for Bobby Kennedy and pushes home the message of then to the now and does it with compassion. An excellent movie with and excellent case and message!
Robert K. gave it a10:
Outstanding. Powerful. Intelligent.
Jay W. gave it an8:
It touched me, and that is what any movie is meant to accomplish. It made me cry for a man so unlike our present president and wonder what would have been if people of his ilk had not been murdered. The film, though sometimes lacking in its character weaving, nonetheless kept my interest and the final scene broke my heart.
