A battle-hardened American political consultant is sent to help re-elect a controversial president in Bolivia, where she must compete with a long-term rival working for another candidate.
Enjoyable but insufficiently caustic political satire lifted by its star Sandra Bullock.
Sparks fly, but the grim cynicism of modern politics adds subversive weight to the film’s screwball comedy stylings and has a lot to say about modern politics, in the US as well as abroad.
Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton fail to convince as rival US spin-doctors on the presidential campaign trail in Bolivia.
Bullock gives a spirited comedic performance as Bodine, while Billy Bob Thornton is suitably sleazy as her rival and nemesis. In the end, though, in spite of its hard-hearted cynical veneer, David Gordon Green's comedy-drama turns into a strangely soft-centred and manipulative affair.
After the foul-mouthed viciousness of The Thick Of It, the enjoyable Our Brand Is Crisis feels a little on the tame side.
The plot is dull and a few ill-judged moments of comedy just seem weird.
Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton go head to head as strategists in a patchy satire about the 2002 Bolivian elections.
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