All the President's Men

Vintage: 1976 Genre: Historic Drama Rated: R Overall Awesomenss: 5/5	Synopsis: In 1972 some men broke into the Democratic National Comittiee's office in the Watergate Complex in Washington D.C.. Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) initially investigates the break-in. The plot thickens when he finds that one of the men arrested works for the CIA, and eventually he and another reporter, Carl Berstein (Dustin Hoffman), find that the scandal goes right up to President Nixon himself.
Quality: 5/5	The entire structure of this movie is amazing. It rolls right along like all the best conspiracy theory movies, and in addition to that, the dialogue is seemless. Hoffman and Redford work off of eachother so well that you sometimes forget they're acting. The fact that the movie is so well made is a real tribute to the Academy Award winning screenplay.
Group Fun: 2/5	The dialogue is good, but it's not going to carry you through the entire 2 hours and 30 minutes. Watching this with a group of people will get you very lost very quick, and effectively ruin the movie for you.
Single Fun: 4/5	If you're all by yourself, you can get lost fast. The best way to do it is with one or two other people, so if you miss something, you can keep up, but you're all still paying very close attention. When you do that, this film really comes through, as it's at its best when you examine how all the little plot bits eventually mesh together like cogs in a gear.
Overall-Awesomeness: 5/5	When watched in the proper environment, this is far and away one of the best films ever made. Not only was it written well, and even past the stellar performances of Redford and Hoffman, you find that the very way the movie communicates plot development is so atypical that you're drawn in. Top-notch stuff that serves as a litmus-test for if you're a conspiracy nut or not.