Here's something we never thought we'd say: Frost/Nixon is a lot like the Rocky film. Yes, you heard right. There's the 'underdog challenger', in this case, British chatshow host David Frost. There's the heavyweight challenge that appears way beyond his talents, again in this instance, interviewing disgraced US president Richard Nixon, and getting him to confess to the Watergate scandal that saw him relinquish office in 1974.
Then there's the gruelling 'training' period and mind games, followed by a brutal round-by-round slugest, as the two men trade verbal blows in front of millions. Frost takes an almight battering for the first 70-per cent of the match, before recovering right at the death, to land the killer uppercut (a revelatory document uncovered at the local library!) and scooping the title and cementing his place in TV's hall of fame.
This real-life historical movie, starring biopic specialist Michael Sheen as Frost, is tense, nervy and expertly scripted (it should be - it's adapted from a play). Or more to the point, it's a brainy action movie with words instead of car chases.
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