Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story (2003)emerged from the ashes of the world trade centre to less than positive reviews. Yet if there were a man who deserves credit for holding the country together at that difficult moment it was Rudy Giuliani. And this movie covers the pluses and the minuses of his administration.
The whole sequence of 9 - 11 is a difficult subject matter to approach because it reveals flaws in the US system and the American personality. Lets go back to 9 - 11 at 9, the person who calls himself the war president, a man who had come to power in a cloudy election which bordered on a coup d'etat vanished into the mist. Rudy Giuliani grabbed the microphones and held the nation together. What kind of man does that? Is he a good family man? Well, no. While he was mayor he was carrying on an affair with a staffer whom he appointed a Commissioner. He put her aside and took on another girlfriend. His incumbent wife learned of his plans to divorce her from the newspapers. Still another former wife was on the payroll in the Park's Department.
Did he come from good family? Well, not exactly. Though famed as a crime fighter, Rudy acknowledged his father had done time.
Did he act sensibly and with restraint? Perhaps not. Though Rudy is much lauded for a crack down on the Mafia, city police were in fact arresting bicyclists for failing to carry identification and other picayune infractions.
Were his police effective and well disciplined? Well no. The Finest as shown in this movie gunned down a Bronx householder who was attempting to show identification. The movie didn't talk about the other well known transgression of morality, a sexual assault apparently sanctioned by an entire precinct.
However, the man of the moment on 9 - 11 was Big Rudy and for all the ill that can be said of him he deserves credit for his actions that day. James woods captures the man and the moment in a grand eloquent performance.
The whole sequence of 9 - 11 is a difficult subject matter to approach because it reveals flaws in the US system and the American personality. Lets go back to 9 - 11 at 9, the person who calls himself the war president, a man who had come to power in a cloudy election which bordered on a coup d'etat vanished into the mist. Rudy Giuliani grabbed the microphones and held the nation together. What kind of man does that? Is he a good family man? Well, no. While he was mayor he was carrying on an affair with a staffer whom he appointed a Commissioner. He put her aside and took on another girlfriend. His incumbent wife learned of his plans to divorce her from the newspapers. Still another former wife was on the payroll in the Park's Department.
Did he come from good family? Well, not exactly. Though famed as a crime fighter, Rudy acknowledged his father had done time.
Did he act sensibly and with restraint? Perhaps not. Though Rudy is much lauded for a crack down on the Mafia, city police were in fact arresting bicyclists for failing to carry identification and other picayune infractions.
Were his police effective and well disciplined? Well no. The Finest as shown in this movie gunned down a Bronx householder who was attempting to show identification. The movie didn't talk about the other well known transgression of morality, a sexual assault apparently sanctioned by an entire precinct.
However, the man of the moment on 9 - 11 was Big Rudy and for all the ill that can be said of him he deserves credit for his actions that day. James woods captures the man and the moment in a grand eloquent performance.