Bobby

This felt like a Friday night episode of "Hotel" from the 1980's, it was just so nondescript in shoehorning its points on race and inequities of a class system that has evolved in the US on the eve of the 1968 primary elections in California. The use of the steadicam shots lacked a certain spontaneity and got a little too cute at times because I kept focusing on whether the cameraman would show up in the mirrors during the shots, and not the on acting performances, most of which were not helped by an average script.

RFK was almost an afterthought at times, and the lack of focus on the man himself, in favor of all the soap opera elements detracted quite a bit from the film. There wasn't a good way to screw up the tragedy that lies in wait, so the ending wasn't bad, but it never really built up any tension to that fateful day, and you're left with an "eh" feeling coming out of the theater.

I give it 1.75 stars, or a grade of C-.