2/4  Bobby
'Bobby' is is huge disappointment of a movie, considering the material it's based on and the talent involved. The movie claims to be about Bobby Kennedy the night he was assassinated, but it's the complete opposite, it tells the story of t... (read full)

2/4  Uninvolving
I thought this movie was mainly about the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy so I was really frustrated an hour into the movie because nothing made any sense. Everything somewhat comes together in the end so I was glad that I ... (read full)

2/4  Fails in the latest trend
This is the latest movie to try the muliple character/multiple storyline in the footsteps of movies like Crash and Traffic. Unfortunately, it doesn't really work here due to way too many characters (the film's synopsis boasts 22) and no i... (read full)

3.5/4  movie gives interesting historical perspective
I really enjoyed this historical movie based on the assassination of Bobby Kennedy. It had an interesting perspective as well as a cast of many well known actors and actresses. This movie showed that past issues are quite similar to the o... (read full)

0.5/4  Bobby Quick Review
Not my type of movie. I found it was slow, it took awhile to really get into the movie.

2.5/4  Bobby Quick Review
A great ensemble cast put into a less-than-great film. Although it looked at a lot of the issues and culture, I felt it bounced around between so many different characters and story lines nothing was really accomplished.

2.5/4  Bobby Quick Review
A slow pacing, meandering, unspecific piece that is some times brilliant but normally unsatisfying. I will say that the suspense does build and that the end result is fairly satisfying. It does show what could have been but may never be.

1/5 Why America Hates Hollywood
  by Jerry P. Danzig (New York, NY USA)
Martin and Charlie Sheen are renowned for embarrassing themselves in public, and here the other Sheen boy, Emilio Estevez, steps up to the plate and -- knocks a foul ball way, way up into the bleachers!

Estevez wrote and directed this remarkably boneheaded movie, which attempts to memorialize the day Robert Kennedy was assassinated by -- trivializing the event, focusing on a bunch of fictitious characters playing out their cliched melodramas on that fateful day.

This movie unfolds like a REALLY bad episode of the "Love Boat" -- if the latter were the Titanic. It also reminded me of the dreadful Irwin Allen disaster movies of the seventies -- except that the only disaster on display here is the movie itself.

I kept expecting Shelly Winters to rise from the dead and take the proceedings here to a new level of camp, but instead a cast of actors I used to respect take the honors. Bill Macy, Laurence Fishburne, Anthony Hopkins -- what were they thinking? I assume that they did indeed read this script before they agreed to take part...

This movie in large part explains why so many average Americans hate the rich, self-absorbed, and self-indulgent names in Hollywood when they choose to get involved in politics.

The only way I can recommend viewing this pretentious piece of twaddle is to follow the example of the two young characters in the film who drop acid. Perhaps the flick would inspire a few chuckles among those experiencing hallucinations.

Others should stay far, far away.

1/5 politically correct 60's stereotypes and the roots of anti-americanism in the Democratic Party
  by Thomas Lee (Outside Phila, PA)
This is a politically correct 60's stereotype. Today, young people are largely brain-washed and ignorant of historical facts. For the record, it was Eugene McCarthy who was the courageous Democratic candidate who challenged the Vietnam War. Bobby Kennedy only jumped into the race after McCarthy showed that an anti-war candidate was viable. Of course, with his name, he quickly eclipsed McCarthy. Bobby was assassinated by a Palestinian. JFK was assassinated by a Communist (Oswald). The affiliations of both killers have been largely forgotten and the crimes were attributed to the evil of America. These killings and the media interpretation put America on the path that it is still treading- toward oblivion.

5/5 One of best films I have seen
  by E. Erenler (New Jersey)
I am surprized that most professional movie critics did not give this film higher ratings. Most of these critics take shortcuts. They watch the first half hour of the film, then go accross the street to have a drink or two, then come back for the last half hour of the film. You need to sit through this whole movie in its entirity in order to truly appreciate it. An unheard of 24 (or so) characters are protrayed in the film. No way can you understand all the characters by just watching the first and last half hours of the film.

5/5 BO BBY
  by Msmoninabmata
Bobby is a good film to watch, it stimulates your imagination. It shows a lot of life going on at the same time. While during the time that Bobby was campaigning, a lot of subplots was going on. The life of the entertainer-played by Demi and the the role of her manager husband as well. It shows the intricacy of how it is to live a life in politics as well as the life in show business. It affects the hotel industry and the the different people involved in that industry. In sum, Bobby is a story that's not have a happy ending but a story of what have been- if...

3/5 "Brothers and Countrymen..."
  by Deborah Earle (USA)
Interspersed with actual footage of the turbulent 60s, Emilio Estevez presents his take on the fateful events in Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel in June 1968.
After an introductory scene of a hotel fire drill, we are led through a series of fictional vignettes about hotel workers and patrons, including two young campaign workers(Shia LeBoef, Brian Geraghty)
who enjoy chats in a diner with a pretty waitress and aspiring actress named Susan Taylor(Mary Elizabeth Winstead), but who shirk their campaign duties to drop acid with a hippie named Fisher(Ashton Kutcher), and a journalist from Czeckoslovakia(Svetlana Metkina) craving an interview with Senator Kennedy (David Fraunces), despite campaign manager Wade Buckley's(Joshua Jackson)objections.
Lawrence Fishburne plays chief kitchen staff member Edward Robinson, who encourages the potential of Latino bus boy, Jose Rojas(Freddy Rodriguez)amid bickering with bus boy Miguel ( Jacob Vargas), and Christian Slater's supervisor, Daryl Timmons is fired by Paul Ebbers(William H. Macy) for refusal allow the kitchen staff time off from work to vote.
Timmons retaliates by revealing Ebbers' extramarital fling with switchboard operator, Angela (Heather Graham)to Ebber's wife, Miriam (Sharon Stone), a beautician whose clientele include washed-up chanteuse, Virginia Fallon (Demi Moore), slated to introduce Senator Kennedy if she can stay sober, and a young bride-to-be named Diane(Lindsay Lohan), who is marrying her High School sweetheart, William Avery (Elijah Wood)to shield him from the Vietnam War draft. A certain irony would later emerge from that scenario.
Harry Belafonte and Anthony Hopkins play Nelson and John Casey, a retired hotel employee and doorman respectively, who enjoy games of chess together.
Nick Cannon's activist Dwayne, is a young man who views RFK as America's last great hope, and has pleasant but also sobering exchanges with switchboard girl, Patricia(Joy Bryant),encouraging her to view her existance in society as more than just marginal.
Martin Sheen and Helen Hunt play Jack and Samantha, a high-powered couple dealing with his depression and her materialism.
Estevez himself appears as Virginia Fallon's long-suffering husband, Tim, and David Krumholtz is her long-suffering agent, Phil.
In due time, all their stories are tied by a common thread during Sirhan Sirhan's (David Kobzantsev) climatic firing of a fatal round in the hotel kitchen, destroying hope, destroying lives, and devastating a sense of idealism for many.
We hear the Senator's condemnation of violence, prejudice, and fear as the wounded lay in need of assistance, and the last icon of 60s idealism is removed from our midsts forever.
The chaotic scene beneath an American flag at the hotel entrance says it all. It will be up to the shattered, scattered and confused left milling about as an ambulance drives off to pick up the banner, to bind a nation's wounds, and to make the American people brothers and countrymen again.