Phillip Seymour Hoffman As Capote

What a great performance by Phillip Seymour Hoffman in the movie Capote which focuses on the six years it took him to write the book In Cold Blood and his relationship with one of the murderers of a Kansas family named Perry Smith. Hoffman is one of the best actors in the world right now and he reminds me of a young Robert DeNiro in the way he is so able to inhabit a role and his almost chameleon like ability to change. Amazing. If he doesn't win the Academy Award it will be a travesty. I can't imagine someone doing a better performance this year.

The directing of this movie is very, very good and unobtrusive. You just get sucked into the film and never get jolted out of the movie with a bad edit or camera move or a performance by anyone in the cast. Clifton Collins Jr. as Perry Smith is very good as well, but really not a missed moment in the film by anyone. Go see it.