in this film and be invite to observe the descent into a moral and emotional funk of someone who isn not likable to start with . what be the point of make the film and then . to show that it would have be well not to have have in cold blood a book i admire and incidentally in order to have keep our hero integrity intact . hardly . he behave at the party at the start of the film exactly in the same way he behave after his triumphant reading from the book and so his degradation be a matter of degree . be we suppose to care enough about capote to take seriously his claim that he and murderer perry smith be kindred spirit and with the former have have all the break while the latter have none . mr capote plight do not touch me at all and i be afraid and so if that be the central idea it be waste on me . but even if i could fathom why the filmmaker visit this pointless project on u and the clunky storytelling would still have bore me a it do . hoffman give a bravura performance to no emotional effect and while keener and cooper be so warm and interesting that i be yearn for more of them . dreary beyond belief .