DVD Review: "Bobby" (2007)

This pointless flop stars pretty much everyone under the sun in a look at what happened in the Ambassador Hotel the day that Robert F. Kennedy was shot (June 5, 1968). From extramarital affairs to acid-dropping campaign workers, hanging-on doormen to Latino kitchen laborers, several snippets are combined to give the film a "Crash"-like feel, but in the end, there is no overarching theme which unifies the disparate characters. Even at two hours, this film seems overly long, which is quite telling, and one is left to guess that writer/director Emilio Estevez is lamenting the absence of an RFK-esque figure in today's America; however, it's hard to take his plea seriously as he employs the vapid and empty Lindsay Lohan to portray the moral opposition to the Vietnam War in this meandering affair.

Overall rating: 4/10