The ides of March (2011)

	Also Known As: Tage des Verrats
	Year of first release: 2011
	Director: George Clooney
	Actors: Ryan Gosling, Philipp Seymour Hoffman, George Clooney
	Country: USA
	Genre: Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 30.06.2013, DVD
Synopsis: Stephen Meyers is a young idealist who's brilliant at communications, is second in command of Governor Mike Morris's presidential campaign, and is a true believer. In the middle of the Ohio primary, the campaign manager of Morris's opponent asks Meyers to meet; he offers him a job. At the same time, Morris's negotiations for the endorsement of the man in third place, a North Carolina Senator, hit a snag. A young campaign intern, Molly Stearns, gets Stephen's romantic attention. Republicans have a trick up their sleeve.
Review: After the first scenes sounding like the hopefull Obama campaign, the reality of politics comes out, with all the tricks to get power today and later by each level, to defeat the competitor by all means, affairs, destroying teams. The concept is not bad, but some cliches (pregnant intern) are heavily set and there is no rythm of a thriller developping suspense, even if in the story there are some facts that could have make this possible. By focusing too much on the political message, Clooney misses making a good movie, when the actors are good. For the first time, Ryan Gosling is changing his faces, as if he had some feelings. Better than Drive, etc. for this point.
Rating: 4 /10