Run This Town

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Jelisije J @jjosifovic 02/02/2022 You want a good movie about the demise of Rob Fords career this movie ain't it and honestly a politician who gropes people while drunk is not something I would consider movie worthy. See more Rich S @RPS1963 10/30/2020 While it's got some things going for it, Run This Town runs aground in all of its verbiage and stories that take the viewer in several different direction. You could say it's the perfect movie to memorialize Rob Ford's time as Mayor of Toronto. He had some thing going for him, but ran aground amid all of his stupid remarks and constant searches for several different ways to get high. See more 08/30/2020 I didn’t like how they portrayed the Rob Ford. He was mean spirited towards his staff and they also made him look dumb. Rob was smart. He has his substance abuse issues but the film portrays him as being nasty. Not fair. See more 08/18/2020 Absolutely useless movie. Not the least bit entertaining. Awful. See more 06/02/2020 This is a film that wants to be hip and fast-paced like an Aaron Sorkin project, but instead plays as a smattering of perspectives smashed together whether they fit or not. When a young reporter (Ben Platt) deviates from writing his daily lists (a la Buzzfeed) and chases a story involving the Toronto Mayor (Damian Lewis), he finds himself up against individuals with questionable motives and aides to the mayor (Nina Dobrev and Mena Massoud) who are working overtime to cover their boss' tracks. Mayor Rob Ford has a well-chronicled history as a drunk, a womanizer, and ultimately a man that partakes in hitting the crack pipe (an event which is at the center of this film). In attempting to build a narrative around Platt's character, however, Run This Town fails to chart new territory or execute any story depth. Aside from the fact that you know early on what you're dealing with in Ford, the stakes never feel heightened. Ford himself is portrayed in caricaturesque form, both in Lewis' performance and in the horrid prosthetics that are somewhere between Austin Powers' Fat Bastard and The Nutty Professor. The bright spots of the film are in how it presented through the multiple perspectives and through use of jumpy split screens. This also is a huge problem for Run This Town, as you lose track of the time jumps that occur and never quite see everything fit together. Platt, Dobrev, and Massoud are to be commended for what I consider solid performances even with less-than-ideal material. The same goes for Scott Speedman, who plays Platt's character's editor and no, is not a hybrid vampire and werewolf (I can never not look at him as a character from Underworld). In the end, however, this is a film that needed more meat to it. See more 05/24/2020 It started slow and ended worse. I thought it would pick up. Even though the story seems to be accurate, it was not entertaining or funny. Just simply a horrible screen play. They could have done a much better job with this story and Damian Lewis. See more Read all reviews

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