While the film is paced well, the script bounces around Hoover's recounting of his touchstone exploits as he built up the FBI from the early days of fairly little clout into its more stronger and wide-reaching arm of the US Attorney General. The main problem is that it just feels like an unreliable recounting of his greatest hits without much of a focused theme for Hoover's life and times being the head of the FBI, and his own use of leverage to stay on top.
Overall, the make-up job on the 3 principal characters (Hoover, Tolson, and Gandy) was distracting to the point where I'd rather they just cast older actors (say Jon Voight, James Cromwell, and Helen Mirren) to play them in the 1960s-1970s, while utilizing Leo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer and Naomi Watts for their younger versions because no one really goes to movies to see this trio of actors in old-people make-up.
I give it 2 stars, or a grade of C.
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