Jack Kevorkian is such an awesome personality that this movie was somewhat inevitable. With Al Pacino in the title role, it's better than it could have been. At the same time, I found most of it very average - good and forgettable at the same time, If I can convey my drift. The strongest moments come towards the end, when Kevorkian's stubborn behavior costs him his freedom. I enjoyed the movie, but it felt like something seen many times before. In these cases, I think I prefer a good documentary.
One thought that sprang to mind during this. Cinema has moved into a direction in which a lot of shots and overabundance of coverage is the norm. I was watching a scene with Pacino and John Goodman having a conversation inside a car and the contrast between that and the shots in The Great Escape (showing in the other channel) was incredible. All right, that's an extreme counter-example, but what I mean is that there was no physical action in the scene and yet we had all these separate shots capturing minute gestures of each actors that I instinctively disliked. In my personal taste, that almost shows a lack of trust in the scene, the dialog or the actors, which obviously must not be the case here.
One thought that sprang to mind during this. Cinema has moved into a direction in which a lot of shots and overabundance of coverage is the norm. I was watching a scene with Pacino and John Goodman having a conversation inside a car and the contrast between that and the shots in The Great Escape (showing in the other channel) was incredible. All right, that's an extreme counter-example, but what I mean is that there was no physical action in the scene and yet we had all these separate shots capturing minute gestures of each actors that I instinctively disliked. In my personal taste, that almost shows a lack of trust in the scene, the dialog or the actors, which obviously must not be the case here.