If you're on the fence regarding watching this flick, go ahead and watch it. Its an above average crime drama with good acting and a good plot. Its current 6.8 rating is bang on. It'll probably end up a 7.2 before long and it deserves it.
'Nuff said.
The "bad vibes" come from the fact that Redford is known for liberal views, and the conservative press jumped on this film before they knew anything about it.
They missed the entire point of the movie. Actually, there were two points to be made. First, that the press has it's own agenda, and it isn't "Truth, Beauty and the American Way". It is much more commercially motivated.
Second, that by avoiding the public price exacted by the court system, Grant/Sloan paid a higher Private price, but in reality, everyone around him paid an even higher price.
The drama in this film is supposed to be the fact that Izzy, his 11 YO daughter, would now be paying the biggest price for his college days.
This is a good film. Hardly a word of dialog is unnecessary. Redford tried to do so much in a short period of time that CLARITY got left on the cutting room floor.
This is a film that will grow on you as you figure out the missing pieces. As MoDo says, the rating will probably increase over time.
No its deeper than that the Clintonite liberals hate the radical Left because they threaten to expose their deceit.
sharePeople pick on Redford because of views but if anyone watches the film, you would see that people have regrets and acknowledge they made mistakes.
Its that man again!!
Including the cop !! I am 51 and life IS regrets !
Except of course the then and now generation of Feds/FBI/Homeland Security
those zombies think they are correct about everything when they are brainwashed to the hilt.