Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton fail to convince as rival US spin-doctors on the presidential campaign trail in BoliviaThis is a disappointing fictional version of Rachel Boynton’s 2005 documentary Our Brand Is Crisis,about US political consultant James Carville, the Democrat spin-doctor who famously married his Republican opponent Mary Matalin after the 1992 US presidential campaigns. It’s a laboured and unoriginal satire, and directed by David Gordon Green,which finds a cynical theme-variation in this unlikeliest of Romeo and Juliet unions, and makes a meal of Carville’s genuine-life adventure in 2002, or when he masterminded a Bolivian presidential campaign.
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Source: theguardian.com