unfortunately, Felt's actions, while historically important, don't exactly make for riveting drama, especially compared to a classic about two dogged reporters. Nor does the film succeed in making Felt himself particularly interesting
none of those topics are really explored in "Mark Felt." Instead the simplistic film first casts him as a white-knight hero, and then surrounds him with uber-'70s, paranoid-cinema cliches
"Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House" offers surprisingly little resonance. It doesn't capture its own era well enough to even begin to speak to ours
by Stephen Whitty [Newark Star-Ledger ]
