I was hoping this film would be fair and historically true to the man. Based on this review, I am looking forward to it. (Reagan 80’ was my first presidential vote)
Reagan was the last of the presidents with class. Unfortunately, his political opponents had little to none - the ‘mutual respect’ commented about with Tip O’Neil was only one-sided. Tip rolled him whenever he could.
Now we've got commies running our government. Damn.
BTTT
The Pope, Reagan, Gorbachev and Maggie Thatcher to a lesser extend all directly contributed to my wife and I being able to adopt a baby girl in Romania in 1991. Now she is 33 with twin boys and a husband we love. God bless everyone who helped make that happen.
I don’t like Meryl Streep. I abhor Bette Midler, and those on the View, etc.
But, I’ll end up seeing this for Quaid’s portrayal.
Ah yes, "Liberals, sound like Tarzan, look like Jane and smell like Cheetah".
But of course that is not "calling them names".
It is cute the way Cal seems to have have wiped entire years of Reagan from his memory.
I saw it opening day. Absolutely loved it, will readily go see it a second time. The production value was, happily, very good. Interesting approach using KGB agent’s recollections and news reports, works very well. His early battles with the Hollywood subversives was nicely portrayed. All the acting was very good to excellent, Quaid was spot on. Really appreciated the senior staff portrayals (the brief David Stockman portrayal made me laugh). The end credit’s original photos of the RR scenes as portrayed throughout the film were a nice inclusion.
I was 27 when my political conservatism had fully evolved (from a skull full of mush) and I voted for RR. Some will say the film is hagiography and I might tend to agree, but I thoroughly enjoyed it from beginning to end and RR will always be one of the two best presidents in my lifetime.
One qualm, Brezhnev’s eyebrows, while bushy, weren’t bushy enough!
Very good movie Jon Voight and Dennis Quaid were great!