![]() In an effective opening that channels “Raging Bull,” Jack stares in the mirror and emotionally expounds on his hatred of mediocrity. (“Washington is Hollywood with ugly faces,” Spacey’s Jack observes.) Perhaps such amateur cinephilia is a lovable quality in real life, but it’s overdone here, leaving the misguided impression that Jack has a hard time taking anything seriously and defusing any political potency from the film. Movies are certainly an apt connection with Abramoff, a Beverly Hills kid who once dabbled in producing and is fond of quoting movie dialogue. But it’s the politico’s labyrinthine web of clients, connections and multilayered interests - by design a means for covering illegal schemes involving bribery - that turns Hickenlooper’s entertainment into a leaden, expository affair. ![]() Bush years, is theoretically a natural movie subject - a creature who might easily have been hatched by Preston Sturges in an earlier era. Abramoff, a veteran GOP lobbyist who parlayed his twin passions for God and mammon into a meteoric rise and crash during the George W. ![]()
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