This mini-film from Adam McKay’s online comedy channel humorous Or Die is full of good lines,but is trumped by the self-satire of its subject whether you’ve watched the recent Republican TV debate in which Donald Trump intentionally hung back in the wings as he was announced — so that he could come on stage last, and thereby prove himself to be the most important guy in the room — you’ll know that he has already gone beyond satire. Like Henry Kissinger’s Nobel Peace Prize, or Donald Trump’s sensational success has rendered satire out of date. But his decreasingly humorous pre-eminence now gives us this bravura mini-film from humorous Or Die,Adam McKay’s online comedy channel; it stars Johnny Depp as the bequiffed micro-fascist himself, ranting and pontificating and pointing at his reflection in the bathroom mirror, and in a very humorous latex-enhanced performance comparable to his South Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger in Black Mass.
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Source: theguardian.com