No matter how the world treats Donald Trump, there is no denying the unequivocal fact that, like Nixon, the incumbent president will become an iconic figure in Hollywood, and we will see more than one film dedicated to those 2016 elections / anti-racist riots of 2020 / the Trump administration as a whole. And the beginning has already been laid - a fairly large for television film ' Comey Rule' (The Comey Rule, 2020), consisting of two full-length series.
To call this tape a mini-series language does not turn - the quality of the shooting, the juicy visual series, the actors involved in the project of the first magnitude it becomes immediately clear that the work was carried out high-quality and painstaking. From the very process of watching the film, you get pleasure, as if watching a big Hollywood movie (which is ' The Comey Rule' and is), but it should be noted - like most political dramas in Hollywood, in places quite boring and overly pathetic, permeated with American patriotism and some anti-Russian cranberry.
Well, it is understandable - the central theme of the tape is the investigation ' Russian interference' in the 2016 US presidential election, including the latent confrontation between Donald Trump and James Comey. And in this confrontation, everyone is immersed in everything - FBI executives, mid-level employees, families of the main characters - every dog cares what happens to Democratic America if an eccentric businessman enters the White House. Almost every American, shown in the frame, perceives Trump’s victory as a tragedy of a national scale – women cry, men beat their heads against the wall, security services bite their nails realizing that they let Russians into the White House.39 Speaking of the Russians, they are here in cameo images depicted by two secret agents of stupid appearance, talking in broken Russian, Edward Zinoviev as Russian Ambassador in Washington Kislyak, and Stass Klassen in the role of Vladimir Putin. By the way, all of them are ordinary furniture, windmills, with which to fight ' the most honest and beloved' Director of the Bureau, because for the insignificant time that they are allocated, do not show themselves in the frame. But behind the scenes emerges quite a clear image of our president, comparable to the One-Who-Cannot-Name. I should have invited Fiennes to the role of Putin, it's even funny.
Regarding the Russian threat - here it is discussed as a fact, the FBI staff at meetings (of which the film actually consists) first discuss the hacking of Hillary Clinton's email by Russian hackers, along the way indignant that she violated all the requirements of working with secret documentation and is subject to criminal prosecution, and then discuss the recruitment of Trump either by the heads of Russian intelligence services, or personally by Putin, simultaneously dusting off some story with "Golden Rain" & #39; Evil GRU, FSB, Oleg Deripaska, Putin, Kislyak, secret dossier Steele in the conversations of analysts from the FBI are mentioned with enviable regularity, drawing in the mind the image of the main enemy with a tricolor flag. The pompous and Russophobic moods of the creators of the film begin to irritate even when you try to evaluate the project impartially - I even think that the authors of the tape would get even an American viewer. Oh yes, it is still hard to believe that literally every American is such a politically educated Clinton fan.
But what’s really exciting about the movie is the cast. And first of all not the same in all the tapes of political orientation Jeff Daniels in the role of a kind of silicone & #39; American dad' (his James Comey is no different from his own character from & #39; Ghost Tower') - the kind of FBI Director Comey, from whom everyone, from special agents and analysts to secretaries, in the FBI is crazy, and Brendan Gleeson, an honored Irish star, in the image of Donald Trump, well, just brilliant - an incredibly similar facial expression, a bright character, a kind of a commercial authority, which is afraid of even leaders. It is significant that they instruct each other before meeting the impulsive president. Trump Gleason is a suspicious and impulsive heavyweight, a truckman who sweeps everything in his path, including the nerugs-siloviki, who want to throw him from the cherished chair as a result of his investigation. In principle, Gleason’s hero is a big compliment to the real Trump, because he portrayed a rather charismatic, courageous and even dangerous person. A kind of bright antagonist compared to 'boiled' protogonist. I also want to highlight Kingsley Ben-Adir in an incredibly positive image of Barack Obama, the last champion of democracy. Positive to dental gnashing. John Bourgeois, whose main merit is a striking resemblance to the real CIA Director John Brennan. William Sadler, also for his outward resemblance to Trump’s new national security adviser and former head of military intelligence, General Michael Flynn, who became the villain’s right-hand man #39. Michael Kelly, for being incredibly trustworthy as Deputy Comey. As well as a bunch of familiar faces in secondary roles - Holly Hunter, Jennifer Elle from ' Goal number one', Scuta McNary from ' Narcos', sexy cute Una Chaplin as a bitch-adviser (since ' Taboo' and ' Game of Thrones' it has long been unseen), Richard Thomas and Dan Lett from 'Americans' Only Costa Ronina is not enough here to complete the set.
In light of the recently declassified evidence about the falsification of the notorious Steele dossier & #39; Comey Rule' looks like a banal Russophobic political thriller with a far-fetched conspiracy, filmed about the current US president by his competitors in the upcoming elections. Only in this film it is Trump himself performed by Gleason and is the only powerful plus, because in comparison with his strong-willed and tough antagonist, the main character Comey looks like a weakling who bends under the authority of Trump, and, accusing him behind his back in, as has already become well known, far-fetched and unverified ties with Moscow, can not object to personal dialogue, sliding into plaintive bleating. And of course, tough villain trump wins from the mumley-hero Comey, who empathize well can not.
5 out of 10
P. S. Calling Sergey Lavrov and Sergey Kislyak ' Russian intelligence officers' this is the first sign of Russophobic paranoia that penetrated the brain of the FBI leadership in this film, and affects a cancerous tumor worse.