Noyce's film has a stylish feel for the times, but no real sense of drama. His telling of the post-war history of the decline of the cinema movie reel because of the emergence of the daily news report on television had lots of good historical footage interspersed with his well-filmed and, generally, competently acted story. The problem was that he treated it as an opportunity to squeeze in as many historical references as possible. This left the development of the story to feel almost as though it was also a catalogue of events, each marked by a photo and year. It was a story with a number of tragic events, but no real emotional pull. I was disappointed.
