Quartile rating: 7/10 · 1 rating
In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
Bobby uses the mosaic/ensemble structure to weave together a dozen intersecting storylines set on the day of RFK's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel. The approach is ambitious and Altman-esque, though uneven — some threads feel thin or melodramatic while others resonate. The large ensemble (Hopkins, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Sheen, Estevez, Lohan, Fishburne) delivers variable but generally solid performances with no single standout. Cinematography blends period-appropriate newsreel footage with warm, naturalistic hotel interiors effectively. The ending, which culminates in the actual assassination intercut with Kennedy's speeches, carries genuine emotional weight and elevates the entire film, giving it a poignant, elegiac quality that transcends its structural weaknesses.