CGiii Comment
Where to start with this one! What a disaster!
Yes, there is a story...but, it doesn't actually start until 60 minutes into the film. Up until then, Ricky Tollman focuses on a squirming, mollycoddled, fresh-out-of-school, incompetent, whiny journalist [Ben Platt] and a bunch of ultra-verbose millennials who all look far too young for the jobs they are supposed to be doing. It really is a case of all talk, little work [or story development]...and, lashings of unnecessary and irritating split-screen.
Then...things get interesting...for all the wrong reasons. Damian Lewis must be a little embarrassed, unrecognisable under the worst 'fat' make-up ever to have disgraced the silver screen...he delivers a razzie-worthy performance of over-the-top toxicity...as the could-not-behave-worse, Trump-ish, soon-to-be-toppled, mayor of Toronto.
The final 30 minutes centres around a video recording of this [nasty] mayor [supposedly] taking crack [in a crack den]...what a scandal! Yet the scandal never plays out...we [the audience] never get to see that video...despite the skulduggery involved in possessing it...when the time comes...dramatic music...and, zilch, nothing, nada...talk about an anti-climax!
Run this Town is a film that will leave you asking: Was that it? Unfortunately, that really was it...a major and meandering disappointment.
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The(ir) Blurb...
An emerging political scandal in Toronto in 2013 seen through the eyes of young staffers at city hall and a local newspaper.
