The movie is about the assassination of Bob Kennedy. Instead of the main character, the focus is on the people who got wounded on the night when the incident happened. With the exception of a few cases which include some blurry or from the back images, the scenes involving Kennedy are the actual news and camera footage from his speeches and public appearances. In that respect, the movie feels like a documentary wrapped inside some fictional drama. This is certainly a different kind of storytelling by which the director implicitly gives a cross-sectional view of the society of the day. Those low-profile background events are actually displayed on the foreground until the expected happens. Despite the originality of its narrative, the film misses its mark. The stories of those wounded people flow on separate unconnected or artificially connected streams, which are reminiscent of soap operas. The characters as well as their stories are pretty dull and unengaging. The visual effects that blend the original video footage to movie scenes however, are quite successful.

...is the right word about this film who has three basic virtues - the touching story, the wise ideas and the great cast. it is not easy to say why this film is real special. maybe, for the change of perspective. about politic, about America and about the profound revolution changing a society. the only decent word - see it ! maybe, for discover a surprising director giving his film as pledge for values, as map of beautiful characters, as history lesson. and as useful support for reflection.

-Bobby is a 2006 American drama film written and directed by Emilio Estevez, and starring an ensemble cast. The screenplay is a fictionalized account of the hours leading up to the June 5, 1968 shooting of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy in the kitchen of The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles following his win of the 1968 Democratic Party presidential primary in California.--Critical reception:-Bobby received mainly mixed reviews from critics, who praised its ensemble cast and the direction of Emilio Estevez but criticized the film for having too many plot points and characters. It has a rating of 46% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 169 reviews, with an average score of 5.6 out of 10. The consensus states, "Despite best intentions from director Emilio Estevez and his ensemble cast, they succumb to a script filled with pointless subplots and awkward moments working too hard to parallel contemporary times." The film also has a score of 54 out of 100 on Metacritic, based on 31 critics, indicating mixed or average reviews. -A. O. Scott of The New York Times said, "Emilio Estevez . . . sets himself a large and honorable task. It is important to appreciate this in spite of his movie's evident shortcomings. Intentions do count for something, and Mr. Estevez's seem to me entirely admirable . . . The actors seem more like 'very special guest stars' than like real, 1968-vintage Americans, and their period-appropriate get-ups . . . are more distracting than convincing . . . Some of the stories feel too obviously melodramatic, while others are vague to the point of inscrutability. In the Vietnam- and drug-related plots, the point is hammered home too hard . . . while other narratives wind toward no discernible point at all. Nonetheless the ambition behind Bobby is large and serious." -Kevin Crust of the Los Angeles Times called it "an ambitious film drenched in sincerity and oozing with nostalgia that, despite the energy provided by its title icon via archival footage, falls flat dramatically in nearly every other way. It aspires for the Altmanesque interplay of Nashville or Short Cuts but instead feels like one of those '70s disaster epics such as Earthquake or The Towering Inferno, in which a star-studded cast endures melodramatic story lines as the audience awaits the inevitable momentous event and tries to guess who will be around at the finish . . . It's easy to become swept up in the palpable enthusiasm Estevez shows toward his subject, but the pedestrian and overly expositional dialogue of the film's characters proves to be as stifling as the excerpts from Kennedy's speeches are stirring." -Deborah Young of Variety said of Estevez, "Stepping up as writer and director in a way he never has before, (he) successfully pulls together a complexly designed narrative," and added the film "carries an eerie topicality that makes many of its insights instantly click." Armond White of New York Press wrote that the film "has a humane sweetness", and that it "literally and vividly unites different ethnic groups, labor strata and social castes" in a way that "is not schematic—its exactitude and believability has a Tocquevillian brilliance." -Steve Persall of the St. Petersburg Times graded the film C, calling it "a misguided jumble of too much fiction, few facts and zero speculation" and Estevez "a mediocre filmmaker." Michael Medved, who was in the Ambassador ballroom (20 feet from the podium) the night Kennedy was shot, awarded the film three out of four stars and called it "intriguing but imperfect." He added, "Emilio Estevez gets most of the feelings of the occasion right. But, the melodramatic, multi-character format proves somewhat uneven and distracting." -Richard Roeper said, "Estevez writes and directs with lots of passion, not so much subtlety . . . (He) wants the movie to be on the level of a Robert Altman film like Nashville but falls short." Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film one star and called it "trite fiction" and a work of "insipid ineptitude." He ranked it among the worst films of 2006, as did Lou Lumerick of the New York Post, who dubbed it an "ambitious, but utterly wrong-headed trivialization. --Cast: • Harry Belafonte as Nelson • Joy Bryant as Patricia • Nick Cannon as Dwayne Clark • Emilio Estevez as Tim Fallon • Laurence Fishburne as Edward Robinson • Lindsay Lohan as Diane Howser • Dave Fraunces as Robert F. Kennedy • Jeridan Frye as Ethel Kennedy • Spencer Garrett as David • Brian Geraghty as Jimmy • Heather Graham as Angela • Anthony Hopkins as John Casey • Helen Hunt as Samantha • Joshua Jackson as Wade Buckley • David Kobzantsev as Sirhan Sirhan • David Krumholtz as Agent Phil • Ashton Kutcher as Fisher • Shia LaBeouf as Cooper • William H. Macy as Paul Ebbers • Svetlana Metkina as Lenka • Demi Moore as Virginia Fallon • Freddy Rodriguez as José Rojas • Martin Sheen as Jack • Christian Slater as Daryl Timmons • Sharon Stone as Miriam Ebbers • Jacob Vargas as Miguel • Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Susan Taylor • Elijah Wood as William Avary

It's June 4, 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel in L.A. Robert F. Kennedy is running for President. It's his campaign headquarters. The movie follows various characters in the hotel leading up to the momentous assassination. This is reminiscent of the classic 'Grand Hotel' which is mentioned in the movie. Written, directed and staring Emilio Estevez, this movie is following way too many characters and stories. None of them stand out and none of them has enough time anyways. There are a few compelling scenes but they're buried underneath a pile of other random scenes. The recreation of Bobby's walk through the kitchen is very effective. If only the rest of the movie has that kind of compelling tension. The cast is first rate although some of them can't leave their movie star quality behind to blend into the scenes.