So you get exactly what you expect from Aaron Sorkin. Great dialog, superbly organized. Clever arguments with the occasional unexpected development. Politics that's as honest as you can expect from someone with a definite political view.
Honestly I prefer non-political Sorkin (eg A Few Good Men, Sports Night, Studio 60) but even political (and thus too predictable) Sorkin is better than most dramatists. Can you imagine what he would have done with Nixon and Elvis instead of what we got?
On the plus side, at least political Sorkin is not woke Sorkin. This is squarely the politics of the 60s presented as the politics of the 60s, not the usual attempt to retrodict the concerns of today onto the entire past of human history. Be grateful for small mercies!
Honestly I prefer non-political Sorkin (eg A Few Good Men, Sports Night, Studio 60) but even political (and thus too predictable) Sorkin is better than most dramatists. Can you imagine what he would have done with Nixon and Elvis instead of what we got?
On the plus side, at least political Sorkin is not woke Sorkin. This is squarely the politics of the 60s presented as the politics of the 60s, not the usual attempt to retrodict the concerns of today onto the entire past of human history. Be grateful for small mercies!