12 Movies Where the Critics Were Totally and Completely Wrong
9. All the President’s Men (1976)
Other than the historical angle, and the popularization of “Deep Throat”, it’s just not a great film.
The Watergate scandal captivated the entire world, and its discovery remains one of the greatest examples of investigative journalism in US history.
Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein are assigned to cover the story of a break in at the Democratic Party Headquarters.
Through the help of a mysterious contact known as “Deep Throat”, the reporters soon learn that there is far more to the story than meets the eye. Despite including what was possibly the greatest codename in history, the film fails to do justice to this remarkable story.
The movie is helped slightly by some solid acting from the two main characters, but the pace is painstakingly slow and fails to build any real tension. In 2005, the true identity of Deep Throat was finally revealed to be W. Mark Felt who by then was 91 years old.
Felt was the Deputy Director of the FBI when the break in took place. Although the film plays incredible attention to detail and follows the book written by the two journalists religiously, many have disputed the credibility of their story.
