I just saw 'All the King's Men' at the Toronto Film Festival today, while the movie is slated to premiere world wide on the 22nd of this month, I was able to see it today at a special screening during the festival. While I cannot and probably should not go through the plot (I don't want to spoil it for everyone); all I will say though that it is one of the best movies I have seen this year thus far.
Very powerful performances and story all together. I went into this movie expecting to see an average story (and well performed story) about a politician who came to be governor, despite the powerful people in the background waiting to throw him down, and invoked the power of the people. While on a whole we do seem to get that story, but do not forget that with great power comes corruption, confusion, and in the end we get something different. The story does not look clear like it did before and as the waters get even murkier and polluted; so too does the characters as they play their roles. In the end it was hard to find the bad from the good.
I was though a bit confused in the beginning, they were speaking so much Louisiana slag that I couldn't understand right then. It probably was because it was 9:30am and I was still waking up, it just took me a few minutes for my brain to actually work then everything was fine from there on.
I give this movie a four and half out of five. I strongly recommend this movie.