Very best movie i ever watch

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

I purchased a new copy of this movie from a seller who listed it on one of the internet "for sale" sites; I had checked with my library and also with the video rental store in my area and neither one had the movie available. I had just finished reading the 400+ page book, "Hoffa," by Arthur A. Sloane, Ph.D. Mr. Sloan's book told both the good and the bad about Jimmy Hoffa. I learned by reading the book that Jimmy Hoffa typically worked 16-hour days, six and sometimes seven days a week. I also learned that Jimmy Hoffa neither smoked, drank liquor or ever cheated on his wife. The movie realistically portrayed Jimmy Hoffa as doing his utmost for his Teamster members. The movie also realistically portrayed that the two paramount concerns that Jimmy Hoffa had were for his family and for the rank-and-file members of his union.In my opinion, Jimmy Hoffa's downfall was that he chose to associate himself with organized crime, which in the end cost him his life.

To me, there are 3 things wrong with this film, although they don't make it a bad film...more an incomplete film.1. At best, it's a 2-dimensional portrait of the man. An extra 7-10 minutes early in the film could have given us a better understanding of what in his youth made him the scrappy, feisty man he became.2. Did he have a family life? You'd hardly know it. We see his wife occasionally, but with only one scene of any value. Same for his children...almost nonexistent. A few more minutes could have completed the character sketch.3. I'm no fan of Bobby Kennedy, but the portrayal of Kennedy here by Kevin Anderson seemed downright childish to me.Having said that, there's a lot of good things about this film. The first, perhaps, being Danny DeVito's strong portrayal of Hoffa's chief aide over much of a lifetime (although the character is fictional). A strong theme of the film is loyalty, and DeVito portrays that extremely well.As to Jack Nicholson's performance as Hoffa, it's difficult for me to rate. I am old enough to remember Jimmy Hoffa, and I see glimpses of Hoffa in Nicholson's performance. But that's always a problem in biographical films of people we actually remember. We can look at Don Ameche's performance as Alexander Graham Bell and accept it rather readily because we don't personally remember Bell. But some of us remember Hoffa, and it would be a mistake for Nicholson to do an "impression" of Hoffa, because it would be widely criticized. So, he does an admirable job of not letting an impression get in the way of the story.DeVito also directed this film, and I have to give him credit for the deft manner in which he handled flashbacks. Generally I think that flashbacks are overused in many films. Here the technique worked very well with very smooth transitions.Of course we don't really know how Hoffa died and disappeared, but the ending of this film is an intriguing and nifty explanation. Very well done.If you want to get a sense of Jimmy Hoffa the labor leader, this film will accomplish that. If you want a sense of the whole man, you'll be a bit disappointed. But, the film is an admirable effort.

I'm halfway through a biography about Jimmy Hoffa but couldn't wait to finish it before the chance to watch this bio-pic arose. I will still finish the book as I wasn't completely taken with this ambitious and sometimes imaginative film.My problem with it was principally the construction. While I accept the premise of grafting on an ending to resolve the mystery of Hoffa's last movements, the audience manipulation involved, which sees violence erupt from an unexpected source and dissolve into a Peckinpah-ish slow motion "dance of death", and repeated returns to the, in truth, less than compulsive build-up to the climax, only serves to slow down the momentum of the film. In addition, the lack of any definite kind of date-marking of events also served to confuse as the narrative jumps forward in time giving little indication of the time-spans involved.Danny DeVito's direction has some imaginative, if occasionally derivative, flourishes but for all that Hoffa is undoubtedly an interesting character, I felt the film dragged along until the final quarter. I would also take issue with the portrayal of Hoffa himself as it seemed to me the writing and direction wanted to significantly whitewash his shady dealings, especially the violence and other dirty tricks he orchestrated and employed for his own ends. I get that he may have been a hero to his members, but it almost seems that the film doesn't think he should have gone to jail at all. In addition, his celebrated encounters with his nemesis Bobby Kennedy fizzle out almost as quickly as they're introduced and as for the depiction of a family life to add some depth to his character, well, there was very little of that too.As for the acting, I'm no fan of the over-actor supreme Jack Nicholson, but he certainly looks the part, although, as ever, you can see him going through the gears for a big scene, usually involving him screaming the "F" word ad nauseum. De Vito himself does okay as his best bud who refuses to sell him out and JT Walsh performs well as the one-time lackey now leader, who does.While a watchable effort, I felt this movie overdid the questionable respect its title character was due right down to the lush, omnipresent orchestral score which I felt all told amounted to far too soft a treatment of such a contentious individual.

The film's production values are great. Visuals look good with attention to detail in sets, costumes, and makeup. Frame composition and especially lighting create a pleasing, artistic effect. Viewers get a real sense of the American rust belt with its snowy landscape, bleak urban factories, and put-upon laborers during the film's rough and tumble social era spanning four decades, from the 1930s to the 1970s.The problem here is the script concept. Though some viewers, for various reasons, will want to watch a film about Jimmy Hoffa, most potential viewers, I suspect, will opt out. A presumed biography of an American labor leader and his worker rights movement from decades ago will be perceived, rightly so, as a cinematic textbook, dry and uninteresting.The David Mamet screenplay isn't even factual. The chain-smoking Bobby Ciaro (Danny DeVito) is an invention, as is the "Young Kid". The plot begins outside a diner called the "Roadhouse"; in fact, the real-life diner was the "Red Fox Restaurant". Other elements about the film's ending also are fictional. The script leaves out Hoffa's threat to kill JFK, which is part of the historical record. Indeed, the script is semi-biographical and somewhat sanitized. And with the huge amount of dialogue, some of which is political speechifying, the story is at times boring.This is a big-budget, extravagant film with an enormous cast of extras, lots of built sets, some of which are huge. The number of speaking roles also is huge. Big-name stars telegraph to viewers that the film has the blessings of mainstream Hollywood. Acting generally is good. With stiff body movements, squinting eyes, and inner passion, Jack Nicholson gives a fine performance as Hoffa. About midway through, Kevin Anderson nails the role of Robert Kennedy.The enormity of the film effort is impressive; yet it also conveys an impression of cinematic self-importance. But the most basic problem is that the central character has largely faded into history, apart from the mystery of his disappearance. In the twenty-first century, Jimmy Hoffa is so very ... retro.