They might as well have called it Ocean’s Fourteen and got Tatum and Driver to play the younger brothers of George Clooney and Brad Pitt’s characters, the fit is that neat. This fun movie races ahead to a win – just! – finishing with a fairly high score.Ĭhanning Tatum and Adam Driver play unlikely brothers Jimmy and Clyde Logan who try to pull off an elaborate banknote heist of the bet takings during a NASCAR race in North Carolina. True, it might be calamitous for the planet if she were elected.Logan Lucky ***½ (2017, Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Daniel Craig, Seth MacFarlane, Dwight Yoakam, Hilary Swank, Katie Holmes, Riley Keough) – Movie ReviewĪfter his announced retirement, Steven Soderbergh is tempted back to return to the director’s chair for screen-writer Rebecca Blunt’s Ocean’s Eleven-style crime action comedy. It's enough to make you hope that Sarah Palin has another crack at the presidency. And then, once George W Bush had taken office, we had Billy Bob Thornton in Love Actually (2003), who borrowed his Southern charm and lechery from Clinton, but his bullying from Bush. It was set in what was then the near-future, post-Clinton, but its laidback president, played by Jeff Bridges, was still a likable, recognisably Clintonish figure. In 2000, Rod Lurie's The Contender addressed the issue of politicians' sexual indiscretions head on. Things got slightly more complicated for movie presidents after the Monica Lewinsky affair. Compare those three presidents with the warmonger played by Martin Sheen in The Dead Zone (1983) during Ronald Reagan's tenure, and you'll have some indication of how Hollywood votes. The year after that, he was Harrison Ford in action-hero mode in Air Force One (1997). The next year, in Independence Day (another Emmerich film), the president was an alien-bashing fighter pilot played by Bill Pullman. He was played by Michael Douglas, who does resemble Clinton in a certain soft light. Two years after he was sworn in, The American President (1995), written by Aaron Sorkin prior to The West Wing, made its eponymous character a dreamy romantic lead. During Bill Clinton's first term, Hollywood's love affair with him was apparent in film after film. Whether Foxx will be followed by more big-screen Obamas remains to be seen, but Hollywood presidents tend to be reflections, however distorted, of the current incumbent. Its slogan, I kid you not, was: "The only thing white is the house." Just 10 years ago, Chris Rock directed and starred in Head of State, which treated the very idea as an outlandish joke. Before Obama was elected, Hollywood would never have got away with putting such a young and cool black president on screen. And when the going gets tough, he changes out of his dress shoes. He has a Michelle-like wife and a daughter (true, Obama has two daughters, but if you're a movie president, having any children apart from a single daughter is grounds for impeachment). He's renowned as an academic, but he's also relaxed and confident when mixing with the public. But Freeman's default persona has long been that of a wise and trustworthy old uncle he was a black president who would get votes even in the Bible belt.įoxx's President James Sawyer is a different matter. Morgan Freeman seemed so well-suited to the job of commander-in-chief in Deep Impact that it was a shock when he was demoted to speaker in Olympus Has Fallen. We've had black presidents in the movies before, of course.
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