This photo says it all about Bobby, Emilio Estevez's film about the denizens of the Ambassador Hotel on the day of Robert Kennedy's assassination. Bobby is an overcrowded,busy, purposeful, but dull film, designed to remind us that there was a time when we all got our news from Walter Cronkite and weren't cynical about politics. The "plot" can only lead to one end, but on the way there are a few minor acting gems. Laurence Fishburne has a fun, relaxed scene trading barbs with the hotel's Latino kitchen staff; but then there's a pointless bit of business involving the transfer of some baseball tickets. Lindsay Lohan underplays her role as woman marrying a classmate (dull Elijah Wood) to keep him out of Vietnam, and it's always good to see Martin Sheen. Sheen's storyline seems particularly irrelevant, he's a depressed stockbroker trying to reconnect with his wife (Helen Hunt). Is there another actress of Hunt's stature who communicates such a lack of enjoyment at being onscreen? Bobby feels like a prestigious TV movie that fills up 3 hours on a holiday weekend.
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