The story of Mark Felt, who under the name "Deep Throat" helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1974.
Liam Neeson
Mark Felt
Diane Lane
Audrey Felt
Maika Monroe
Joan Felt
Wendi McLendon-Covey
Carol Tschudy
Julian Morris
Bob Woodward
Josh Lucas
Charlie Bates
Tony Goldwyn
Ed Miller
Kate Walsh
Pat Miller
Michael C. Hall
John Dean
Marton Csokas
Pat Gray
Tom Sizemore
Bill Sullivan
Ike Barinholtz
Angelo Lano
Bruce Greenwood
Sandy Smith
Brian d'Arcy James
Robert Kunkel
Noah Wyle
Stan Pottinger
Eddie Marsan
Agency Man
Wayne Pére
John Ehrlichman
Stephen Michael Ayers
John Mitchell
Darryl Cox
Richard Kleindienst
Scott Poythress
Gray's Flack
Jeff Sprauve
Undercover Agent
Frank Hoyt Taylor
Senator #1
Charles Green
Reverend
Michael Crider
Senator #2
John Chancellor
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Walter Cronkite
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Pat Nixon
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jessica Young
Joan's Friend
Director, Writer
Peter Landesman
January 5, 2018
5
Liam Neeson is fine in the role of Mark Felt, and the subject matter itself is deeply intriguing, but is dealt with in such an odd way. Bad odd. It is essentially a sequence of disparate scenes with no connective tissue other than that they are about the same conspiracy, which unfolds very quickly in a straight line with no consequences felt... Felt... Ohhh. I see what I did there.
Maybe for a diehard political biopic fan this could be the way to go, or someone who wasn’t aware Watergate ever happened and wanted some hard and fast facts, but for me, it was only okay.
_Final rating:★★½ - Not quite for me, but I definitely get the appeal._