The main problem with films like Paterno is boredom. It is not always possible to tell the biographies of people in such a way as to captivate the viewer. But in the film starring Al Pacino, this problem is taken to the extreme. The story of a well-known coach in the USA, embroiled in a sexual scandal, is presented so tediously and lengthily (with a fairly average timing for this genre of one forty hours) that it took me three visits to master it. Yes, and the film looks like an outright order, although the director himself condemns Paterno in the end or not - it's not very clear. Rather condemn. But in any case, to judge an 84-year-old terminally ill man for the fact that fifteen years ago, being also no longer a young man, he reported on a suspicious situation, which he himself was not a witness to, only to his superiors, and not to the whole world - the height of duplicity . Not to mention the fact that there is no official evidence that the case we are told about in the epilogue actually happened. Joe Paterno himself has donated more than one million dollars to charity in his life, and his coaching has opened the way for hundreds of young people to the National Football League. The film "Paterno" is disgusting. Duplicity, the desire to bury an excellent coach and person after his death, just because once in his life he did not tell the press about his suspicions. Terrible boredom in everything - from the image of the coach to the secondary storylines of journalists. And this is the case when even Al Pacino, no matter how great an actor he is, cannot save the picture. And no one could. Do not watch this movie, even if you have absolutely nothing to do. It is better to spend these 100 minutes on healthy sleep.
Review of Paterno
