First of all, am I excited that Grant and McGann are sharing scenes once again, after "Withnail & I"? No. That movie was merely watchable, nothing more. Time and time again, I am astounded to find how easily certain people will cling on to mediocrity, seeing far more in it than is actually there. But next to cult favourites such as "Easy Rider" and "Breaking The Waves", the said movie is almost a classic by comparison.
ACITSC is visually appealing, but the "story" doesn't work. The moment of revelation, when we find out that Grant is the Prime Minister, is more of a "come on..." moment than anything else. So is the point here that politicians are corrupt? Can't drive? Thay they yell hysterically at others at times of crisis, coming close to nervous breakdowns? Laughable. If U.S. Presidents and British PMs were anywhere close to as unstable, corrupt, and immoral as they have been portrayed in recent years, we'd have dictatorships by now.
Who made this? Yet another disillusioned ex-Blairite? What are they disappointed about? The Iraq War? I am sick and tired of left-wing propaganda finding its way in just about every film that has been unleashed on the sheepy public this decade. Illiterate, gullible, ignorant, pacifistic, Marxist, and overly idealistic fools (and criminally opportunistic sleazoids like Michael Moore) seem to permeate the world of film, and that is akin to a small disaster. After all, sheep watch their misleading produce, and as everyone knows sheep do and believe as sheep are told to do and believe. Bah.
McGann is some hidden, menacing, movie-cliché political presence, a pervert who gets sexually aroused when exerting power on the PM, while Grant mugs his way through the role as if he were playing a man who had just escaped from a heavily guarded lunatic asylum. It's plain dumb... Overly dramatic; overkill.
ACITSC is visually appealing, but the "story" doesn't work. The moment of revelation, when we find out that Grant is the Prime Minister, is more of a "come on..." moment than anything else. So is the point here that politicians are corrupt? Can't drive? Thay they yell hysterically at others at times of crisis, coming close to nervous breakdowns? Laughable. If U.S. Presidents and British PMs were anywhere close to as unstable, corrupt, and immoral as they have been portrayed in recent years, we'd have dictatorships by now.
Who made this? Yet another disillusioned ex-Blairite? What are they disappointed about? The Iraq War? I am sick and tired of left-wing propaganda finding its way in just about every film that has been unleashed on the sheepy public this decade. Illiterate, gullible, ignorant, pacifistic, Marxist, and overly idealistic fools (and criminally opportunistic sleazoids like Michael Moore) seem to permeate the world of film, and that is akin to a small disaster. After all, sheep watch their misleading produce, and as everyone knows sheep do and believe as sheep are told to do and believe. Bah.
McGann is some hidden, menacing, movie-cliché political presence, a pervert who gets sexually aroused when exerting power on the PM, while Grant mugs his way through the role as if he were playing a man who had just escaped from a heavily guarded lunatic asylum. It's plain dumb... Overly dramatic; overkill.