The Assassination Of Richard Nixon

Debut writer/director Neils Mueller (co-writer on "Tadpole") stitches together an ambiguous meditation on the pervasive affects of government corruption during the Nixon Administration that led a Baltimore man to attempt to kill the President by hijacking a plane that he hoped to crash into the White House. Although loosely based on real events, through which the director shows a pre 9/11 intentionality of flying planes into government buildings, the film never expands beyond a closed circle of theatrical dramatic limitations that are all nuance and little substance. 

Rated R. 105 mins. (C-) (Two Stars)