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I found Bobby to be a mildly insulting mess. If they wanted to do a story about a day-in-the-life of a hotel, I don't know why they had to choose The Ambassador on the day of Bobby Kennedy's assassination. Aside from montages at the beginning and end of the film, nothing in the movie had anything to do with the senator or his killing.
It's true that among the characters were two senior campaign workers, who never mentioned anything about the themes of the Kennedy campaign ... and a couple getting married for the purpose of the groom avoiding military service in Vietnam. Oh, and there were two junior campaign volunteers who spent the day in a hotel room on their first acid trip. But none of the other dozen or so characters had even these tenuous ties to "Bobby."
I guess it's alright to do a take on Grand Hotel (which was hammer-handedly referenced by having Anthony Hopkins' character talk about the movie "Grand Hotel" at the start of the film) ... but why on earth pick the occassion of the 2nd Kennedy assassination as the setting for a hotel movie that had absolutely nothing to do with Bobby Kennedy?
The tragic ending for the Vietnam-avoidance couple on their wedding day might have illuminated a cornerstone of Kennedy's policy proposals, but that's where the connection started and ended. Nothing else in the film, involving a plethora of guests and employees in soap-opera stories, had anything remotely to do with the titular personage. And the montages about Bobby Kennedy and the hope of a nation that bookended the film were disconnected from anything actually IN the film.
Bah for "Bahby."
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