Netflix Recommendations Thread 3.0

Chicago 7 is all the bad things about Aaron Sorkin’s writing, matched with his very pedestrian and unimaginative direction. The politics and characters of the story are flattened into a sort of middle-of-the-road liberalism (pure Sorkin), and everything is generally glib and shallow. It does move along at a decent, engaging pace, to give credit where it’s due, but there’s a total lack of imagination to the visuals and staging. A terrible soundtrack doesn’t help.

Sorkin definitely needs a talented director to counter some of his worst impulses. The Social Network remains his masterpiece simply because Fincher was able to inject it with the directorial energy and cynical edge it needed.