Thank you for this film

He was one of the most interesting men of the 20th. century. I happen to be old enough to remember Hoover & this movie did not tell his story. It was way to politically correct.

this movie comes off like the story of the creation of the FBI and how J. Edgar ran it but in reality is a story of a homosexual relationship between two men. Very dissappointed in being misled by the previews. Wasted my money

Fascinating lesson about the beginning of modern crime techniques. So much there I didn't know, including J Edgars Hoovers relationship with his top executive! What a paranoid, troubled man. Go, it is worth it. The movie is slow in pace but the beautiful cinematography and acting makes it compelling.

This is a slow-paced film shot in a moody, dim lighting. Leonardo DiCaprio does a great job with Hoover at the end of his life - you forget there's a much younger man inside. But for most of the film, DiCaprio's Hoover is shallow and without joy, an obsessive paranoid too long in the job, who uses the FBI's power to collect secret files and then blackmails whoever displeases him. But we never get the juicy details! Director Eastwood has chosen to focus Hoover's emotional energy more on his love interest with Agent Tolson and his distorted relationship with his mother, and less on, say, how the FBI went after gangsters during Prohibition. You know, some action!! The guy who plays Tolson does a terrific job, but I don't get much entertainment from guy-guy love relationships. And Tolson's makeup as an old man is truly weird... frightening even. So, had there been more roaring Packards and G-men with Tommy guns, more focus on the FBI itself, I would have liked J Edgar more.