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Our Brand Is Crisis (2015)

Comedy | 107 minutes
2,86 107 votes

Genre: Comedy / Drama

Duration: 107 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: David Gordon Green

Stars: Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton and Anthony Mackie

IMDb score: 6,1 (24.005)

Releasedate: 11 September 2015

Our Brand Is Crisis plot

"May the best campaign win."

A Bolivian presidential candidate is bottoming out in the polls and leads to the recruitment of an American team of advisers, who enlist a brilliant strategist named Jane Carville. Living on a self-built pension after a major scandal, Jane sees her chance to strike back against her arch-rival Pat Candy, who coaches the opposition. Jane is plunged into a personal crisis, as is her team, who will do anything to get better grades.

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james_cameron

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Flat and rather boring political satire, with Sandra Bullock as a seasoned adviser who is asked to help an unpopular Bolivian presidential candidate come to power. The plot is very predictable and the script actually misses it all the time. The cast, which is not bad, can ultimately do little with the meager material and there is very little to laugh about.

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I have yet to see the documentary on which this film is based, but Sandra Bullock - in a role originally intended for George Clooney - gives a fine performance as Jane, the campaign strategist of Bolivia's former president Castillo [Joaquim de Almeida] who faces the seemingly impossible task of ensuring that the stiff, uncharming Castillo loses the huge lead in the polls to favorite Rivera [Louis Arcella]. Jane is unimpressed with the way the campaign has been run by Ben [Anhony Mackie] so far, and when she discovers that Rivera has recruited top strategist and arch-rival, the genius and experienced Pat Candy [Billy Boy Thornton], she knows that she will have to tap into a completely different barrel.

More of a comedy drama than a satire and that's a good thing. The satirical elements mainly concern the fact that politicians do not shy away from any means to win the heart of the voter, so there is little news to be gleaned from this. The fun in this film comes mainly from Bullock's strong performance, the good supporting work of especially Thornton, Mackie and Arcella and a number of original and extremely funny moments. Jane's speech to the campaign team is a highlight, as is a wild bus race. Based on true events, though this campaign no doubt evokes comparisons to another free recent election with a surprising outcome!

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A kind of comedy with a bitingly sharp edge - because we all know by now, of course, that in politics, and especially during election time, dirty games are played very often and very often. One of the nicer insights into this, and from 1994 - no, this is certainly not something from the last few years - can be found in the book Interface, written under a pseudonym by Neal Stephenson and his uncle George Jewsbury. In it, the losing side at one point enlists the help of someone known in the industry as The Prince of Darkness.

You would think that this scenario is inspired by that - but no, it is based on the Bolivian elections of 2002. So true, and quite literally exactly so, if I look between the lines. And just as easily you can find examples of strategically planned propaganda in politics now and also with us almost every day - especially the right-wing populists make grateful use of it.

Whether the choice to package the story as a comedy is an honest one, mwah - but it does work, although I have to say that the very heavy cast is used very little. Billy Bob and Joaquim de Almeida, I had hoped to see more fireworks from them, but they remain a bit much in the shadow of Bullock's leading role. And the film as a whole is perhaps more viewing than a real political document. This made it much more accessible to the masses, and that must have been Green and/or Clooney's motivation.

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