I should feel more sorry for Richard Jewell. All he ever wanted was to be a cop, a pretty modest goal but one he wasn't suited for. But then again, Paul Walter Hauser isn't what you picture as a movie star, yet there he is in the title role.
One review seemed to suggest the movie was a Clint Eastwood Republican thing now that Democrats have taken to worshipping the FBI. Richard Jewell is an authoritarian personality, pushing college kids around when he works as campus security then groveling when federal law enforcement starts persecuting him. We never see him interact with Blacks, Latinos, homeless or poor people or protestors.
Several years ago, the lapdog press was chuckling over the possibility of a terrorist attack at the Sochi Olympics in Russia. They forgot about the bombing at the Olympics in Atlanta and the government's botched investigation.
The movie was fine, a Hollywood film.
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