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...victoriously. Next thing you know, she?s on the run from her bosses, who will stop at nothing to silence her, and into Dobbs?s arms. At which point a promising political comedy turns into a somewhat less engaging political thriller. Delacroy?s evil chief counsel (Jeff Goldblum) will stop at nothin - including murder - to prevent her from destroying their business...
...sure, he can still snap misleading orders at his comically feckless crew (led by Willem Dafoe), yearn impotently for a pregnant journalist (Cate Blanchett), hope a visiting fan (Owen Wilson) will turn out to be his previously unacknowledged son, and despise his rival (Jeff Goldblum), who knows how to navigate the modern world and has the swell boat to prove...
...almost immediately, the central storyline is shoved out by a series of subplots that meander in and out of the movie’s consciousness, rarely gaining enough thematic momentum or significance to justify their existences. A rivalry with fellow oceanographer Alistair Hennessey (Jeff Goldblum) offers a handful of barbed laughs, but ultimately devolves into plot-driving filler. Utterly superfluous segments about the expedition’s financial woes cheekily squander the ample talents of actor Michael Gambon (Gosford Park). To decry an Anderson film for its sideline prattling may be missing the point, but where seemingly nonsensical scenes might...
George Gorton (Jeff Goldblum), Dick Dresner (Anthony LaPaglia) and Joe Shumate (Liev Schreiber) have just left the 1996 presidential campaign of Republican California Governor Pete Wilson. Idle and itchy, they get a call seeking help for a presidential candidate in even worse straits: Russian President Boris Yeltsin. A hero for leading his country out of communism in the early '90s, he is now, amid economic ruin and a war in Chechnya, the goat. Polls show him trailing not only his main opponent, communist Gennadi Zyuganov, but also Joseph Stalin, the long-dead Soviet dictator...
...hard to tell their principles from mercenariness--but that's the point. The old joke about democracy is that it's the worst system in the world, except for all the other ones. Spinning's consultants are the biggest heels in this story, except for their opponents. (Goldblum, who comes off creepy even in movies in which he's the hero, is particularly well cast.) Somehow they make us cheer for them to secure the re-election of the out-of-touch head of a corrupt regime through fearmongering and manipulation--to cheapen democracy in order to save...