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D |
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C |
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D |
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B+ |
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I actually saw the movie
by Chris C (movies profile)
Jun 16, 2008
6
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10 people found this review helpful
The worst movie I've seen in a long while, it's basically a 2 hour commercial for a book. I only sat through it because a friend of mine worked on the soundtrack and we wanted to stick around to see his name in the credits.
The whole point of the movie seemed to be how awesome of a guy Jimmy Cater is. He was raised by a black woman in the south, when he travels he takes commercial flights, he carries his own luggage, he's fluent in Spanish, he reads the bible every night with his wife, he swims laps every night, he single-handedly brokered a treaty between Egypt and Israel because he gave a couple of pictures to Anwar Sadat's two granddaughters, he won a Nobel Peace Prize, he's a nuclear physicist, he's been to Gaza so that makes him an expert on the Middle East, yada yada yada. This guy believes himself to be some sort of Mother Teresa figure, except Mother Teresa never went around shamelessly self-promoting herself like this.
In my opinion, the only thing I would have found interesting about this movie would have been how it covered the Middle East. But it did such a horrible job at that. I think I actually know less about the Middle East after having watched this movie. The whole focus was on Israel's building of walls around the West Bank. That's it. It completely skipped over the Six Day War, the establishment of the state of Israel, the history of British control over the region, and the hundreds of years of historical animosity between Jews and Arabs. Who's got time to cover all that when instead we need to see how awesome of a guy Jimmy Carter is because we need to ssee him swimming laps at night. Twice. |
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