BoardChiri
Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay
Dynamixor
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Kaydan Christian
A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
ctb-876-153478
What a great filmed TV movie again by HBO and Al Pacino was phenomenal.
royfaust
Al delivers another excellent performance in this riveting true story about a legend who placed protecting his legacy over the lives of children. We all knew of his greatness and commitment to his program and school, but now we see the struggle and the cover up. It's bad enough what happened to all those kids we know about, it's worse that people want to try to defend those in power who clearly knew what was going on and could have done a lot more to stop it. This film is a statement that power and ego can corrupt even the most well intentioned people.
adonis98-743-186503
The film centers on Joe Paterno, who, after becoming the winningest coach in college football history, is embroiled in Penn State's Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal, challenging his legacy and forcing him to face questions of institutional failure regarding the victims. Paterno benefits from terrific work from director Barry Levinson, good perfomances from a talented cast and Al Pacino who is excellent as Joe Paterno unfortunately the film focuses in alot of characters and at times it's hard to follow or even understand the full story also the end felt kinda flat to be honest, this isn't a bad film of course it's just that it focuses on alot of things when it should be Paterno only as a whole. (6.5/10)
Tony
Awful film but only in what it portrays, time after time we hear of so many instances of what this film depicts. Children abused by those their parents trust, only to have an institutionalised cover up primarily then a sort of circling of the wagons to minimise damage to it. Church, school, social care, it sometimes feels like they were all set up to indulge paedophiles. When the story breaks even decent members of those institutions somehow feel compelled to deny the facts, it suddenly becomes a case of defending the establishment rather than the children placed in their care.
