Not watergate gate

 

18 1/2 (2021)

Directed by Dan Mirvish this film stars Willa Fitzgerald, John Magaro, Vondie Curtis-Hall and Catherine Curtin. A White House transcriber takes a tape of missing Presidential meetings to a reporter.

When you are making a film in the shadow of All the Presidents Men (1976) and Dick (1999) you are going to have to do something special on that spectrum to stand out. Unfortunately this film does not have much going on for it, there are some zanny side characters but the plot never goes anywhere. If you are going to invoke Watergate, you have to do something decent with it.

2/5