«You could perceive that they're saying this out of real lack of understanding, or you could be more cynical and say they're doing it to ratchet up tension,» he told the Guardian. (politics.co.uk)
You have no trouble feeling compassion for their individual foibles and what they each are struggling to achieve: For De Niro it is an imagined lack of respect; For Gooding Jr. it is a very real lack of respect, even when he becomes a national hero. (filmmonthly.com)
Unfortunately, it focuses so much on being intelligent that it becomes quite dull, lacking any real (metacritic.com)