Interesting film but enough with the hero worship

I found this a good film, certainly very grown up (I was flicking between this and Rambo 3 which may have added to the impression). I especially liked Sharon Stone as the scorned wife, practically unrecognisable here and Christian Slater set up as the obvious bad guy but showing much more depth than that, William Macey's character going to help him in the end is a satisfying moment as is his reconciliation with his wife in the face of tragedy. The hotel is an analogy for the US at the time and it's laid on pretty thick ('A city within a city'), there's so many characters it gets overwhelming. You get the impression that when Emilio Estevez put the word out all of liberal Hollywood came knocking at his door for a part.
For the record this isn't a documentary, none of the characters are real except for Freddy Rodriguez's waiter who really did cradle the dying Bobby Kennedy. All of Sirhan Sirhan's other victim's not only survived but thankfully recovered fully (good thing he only had a .22). We learn nothing about the assassin and his motivations, he was actually outraged by RFK's support for Israel and his intention to boost military aid to it. But then that would rather ruin the image of Bobby Kennedy as a liberal messiah? We must be grateful there are no conspiracy theories here and rightly so.
Ashton Kutcher is just absolutely godawful and I've no idea why they left his character in. Given Demi Moore's reputation in recent years her turn as a fading star is oddly prophetic.
Where it falls down is in its' deification of RFK himself who is just goodness and hope personified and would have solved all the world's problems practically single-handed. Truth was he was no saint and his murder was probably a symptom of the troubles in American society rather than it's cause (he justly condemns the rise of violent crime in the late 60s but then again he was the Attorney General during the period it occurred?). It's very unlikely he would have beaten Hubert Humphrey to the Democratic nomination and even less likely that he would have beaten Nixon to the presidency. Even the IMDB Trivia section for this film is really an unrestrained RFK love fest.
So all told a good film but it doesn't need such sycophancy.