Let's just say Chappaquiddick is not the kind of movie I'm normally interested in. Politics, is there anything more boring than politics? They are all corrupted and the only thing that drives them is greed and power. In Chappaquiddick they show what happened with Ted Kennedy, the fourth brother, the only one still alive, the one who murdered a secretary. And yes I say murdered because she could have been saved. The good thing about the movie is the acting, that's good and you can't deny that. The story is what it is, the exact thing that would happen when a powerful rich person gets involved in the death of somebody, he just gets away with it and nobody cares. That's how our society works, there is a law for the rich and a law for the poor. Disgusting but nothing new. All in all the movie is worth a watch but don't expect a masterpiece.

Anything involving the Kennedy's becomes surrounded by mystery and intrigue, especially the men. The JFK and RFK murders have been and continue to be wrought with conspiracy theories or other implications and the Chappaquiddick event is no different. Ted Kennedy did draw sympathy for having to endure the murders of his beloved brothers for his entire life. But he would also have Chappaquiddick hanging over his head for his remaining political life and even following his own death. Now that the movie is finally out, I would say it was cleverly done not to show too much bias. It is what it is, or it was what it was, a girl died negligently at the age of 28. If this was to take place now, Senator Kennedy would not be so lucky to get a suspended sentence for his part in the accident. Mary Jo Kopechne and Ted Kennedy were supposedly not romantically linked. However, his brother Robert was reportedly involved with Mary Jo before he was assassinated, which is neither here not there. The truth of the matter is she died in an accident with not many answered questions. I can't imagine what her folks went through. I can't imagine what went through the minds of everyone directly or indirectly involved in the Chappaquiddick event. I'm sure that this whole incident haunted a lot of people for a long, long time.

This film disappoints. I remember the event quite well and most of the true happenings were covered up and this movie does nothing to add to the truth.We will never know the complete truth, but money talks and happened in the cover up, but this was not even included in this film. It appears that even 50 odd years later, it is still impossible to get the whole truth, so the Kennedy power still reigns.A sad day. I feel this movie should not have been released as the speculation will continue, yet a person lost her life and the culprit got away with it.

If you read Senatorial Privilege you'll get a much fuller and damning indictment of how this story unfolded. This film pays passing interest in to how the autopsy, driving license and grand jury indictment were scuppered or covered up. It's a good film, but seems more interested in personalities than covering the real events afterwards. Just before this I'd watched a docu / film about Pattie Hearst, lets be honest there really is one law for some and another for the rest.