
Jack Nicholson's portrait of Teamsters Union leader Jimmy Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend Bobby Ciaro (Danny DeVito). This film follows Hoffa's struggle to shape America's most influential labor union through his countless battles with the RTA. As he fights for workers' rights, Hoffa locks horns with industry management, organized crime and Attorney General Robert Kennedy. In 1975, four years after serving his prison term, Hoffa disappears, in one of America's m... (Full plot summary below)
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Jack Nicholson's portrait of Teamsters Union leader Jimmy Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend Bobby Ciaro (Danny DeVito). This film follows Hoffa's struggle to shape America's most influential labor union through his countless battles with the RTA. As he fights for workers' rights, Hoffa locks horns with industry management, organized crime and Attorney General Robert Kennedy. In 1975, four years after serving his prison term, Hoffa disappears, in one of America's most fascinating unsolved crime mysteries.
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| Rolling StonePeter TraversThe boldness of director Danny DeVito's violent epic is matched by Nicholson's astonishing physical and vocal transformation into Jimmy Hoffa. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertHere is a movie that finds the right look and tone for its material. |
| The New York Review of BooksMurray KemptonDanny De Vito's Hoffa is artfully constructed, masterfully played, and travels at speeds beyond the prescriptive norm. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldHoffa is an original work of fiction, based on fact, conceived with imagination and a consistent point of view. |
| NewsweekDavid AnsenBig and portentous, Hoffa feels like a series of acting exercises inflated to epic proportions. But as a portrait of unionism's most controversial figure, it offers only flickering illumination. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfDeVito is blasting away with the audacity of a film student, making Hoffa an effort of extraordinary detail, craftsmanship, and directorial ingenuity. |
| Independent (UK)Adam Mars-JonesHoffa, with its jaundiced script and a director wedded to his rose-tinted spectacles, is a mess, with only the sterling truculence of Nicholson's performance to mitigate it. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranThe movie is just plain muddled - showing the Hoffa forces performing a heinous crime one minute, then glamorizing and sentimentalizing them as if the other stuff had never happened. |
| EmpireDanny GraydenDanny DeVito's ambitious and violent biopic nonetheless paints an intriguing portrait of a complex and angry man while effectively exploring his uses and abuses of power. |
| Boston GlobeJay CarrHandsomely mounted and stylishly directed but otherwise rather unpleasant. |