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Summary: Smartest Movie I've Seen In Years
Review: I cannot believe the amount of negative reviews this movie has received on this site. Strike that, I CAN believe it, because people pay the big bucks to see big explosions. No pyrotechnical explosions here, folks, only emotional.Wag the Dog just does everything right: the directing, writing, and acting are all top notch. So if you're in the mood to watch the masters of motion pictures manipulate the system, I highly recommend Wag the Dog. Then, like me, you can hope for a brighter, more intelligent Hollywood to emerge.
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Summary: Great movie
Review: By now everyone knows the plot. They ought to, because it's been in the news for six weeks as the so-called "Crisis in Kosovo." Hundreds of civilians have been killed by NATO, billions of dollars of bombs have been dropped, destroying 50 billion dollars worth of infrastructure in Yugoslavia (to be rebuilt at U.S. taxpayer expense, no doubt (There goes the Social Security Trust Fund)), and all of this to keep Chinagate off the front page. How did the creators of "Wag the Dog" know? That remains a very important question. Maybe the story is not completely fictional.
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Summary: no plot, no thought, no pet, didn't get
Review: I had heard so much hype about this movie that I went to see it with some anticipation. Halfway through the movie, I was still waiting for it to start. Virtually humorless, and unceasingly gray in tone, it left me feeling sorry for Hoffman & DeNiro. How did they get into this mess ?
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Summary: Great idea, but it obviously could have been better...
Review: This movie had the perfect setting to be a classic comedy, but it didn't come close. The characters were undeveloped, the climax was spread out, and the language was awful. I still give it three stars because of the one liners. They were great. A good movie to watch on Starz if you have it, but don't waste time going to rent it.
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Summary: A story about truth,justice and other speacial effects.
Review: with good actors like deniro and hoffmen you can't get a good movie.who ever wrote the story has a very cool imaginatinon.Usally no one can think of a story that good.The story is very smart and funny.The story is about 2 weekes before the election the president is caught in a sex scandle,and the presidents men(robert Deniro)gets the people's mind off the scandle and get a producer(Dustin Hoffmen)to help them fake a war and get a hero named willam shoe(special apperance by woody harrolson)and make up songs about william shoe and about the war.I couldn't give this film 5 stars because it moved a little slow,but otherwise its a great movie.
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Summary: Better on the small screen than the big screen.
Review: I would have given this film 3 stars if it wasn't for De Niro's chracter. Robert De Niro is a great actor, but his character could have been better. Also, this film was too fast and unrealistic. De Niro's character sounds like a mental retard because he talks so fast (no offense to Robby, as I said, he's great). What makes this film satisfying is Hoffman's character, and the great one-liner "this is nothing!". You have to see this film just because of Dustin.
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Summary: Horilble!!!
Review: All I have the say is it was a dumb poorly written movie, that had not characters. I seemed like they wrote the scrit on the back of a cocktail napkin. The actors were bad too and had not sence. One of the only movies I fell asleep during. Not even any entertainment value. SCUM!!!
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Summary: Characters are unaffected by events.
Review: Dustin Hoffman is Harry Thomassonesque, & DeNiro is a hybrid of Ed Rollins & Dick Morris in this political media satire ripped (incredibly) from pending headlines. Let's watch how media personnel manipulate events. The characters manipulate each other too, but no one seems adversely or otherwise affected; they go out (in one way or another) as they came in: gregarious, self-aggrandizing, and analgesic. This video lost me when the three main characters survive a jet plane crash & look no worse for wear than if they'd just attended a 3-hour management seminar. I never watched "Cheers," but I'm convinced that Woody Harrelson is becoming one of the premier character actors of our time: his brief but brilliant Sgt. Schumann role stands out from the generally undisturbed dullness. This video did convince me too how genuinely dull but desperate the real manipulators of world events must be. D+
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Summary: It draws such a parallel with the Clinton scandal.
Review: It's a great movie for all ages. It's got humor, drama, everything for a movie. The similarities between Clinton are very striking. Good movie.
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Summary: One of the best satires on American Politics ever made.
Review: If you are looking for a biting satire that will make you laugh as well as think, then look no further. Wag the Dog is one of the finest scripts that David Mamet has written and it has brought together one of the finest enseble casts I have ever seen, not to mention ont of the most original Directors of our generation, Barry Levinson.
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