 Hey guys, what's going on? My name is Zach and if you're new here, I love doing movie reviews. I love talking movies with you guys. So let's be talking the new movie because I got a brand new movie review for you guys today. And that is Jason Reitman's new film, The Front Runner. Now, The Front Runner is about American Senator Gary Hart's presidential campaign in 1988, when it is derailed when he's caught in a scandalous love affair. Those are Hugh Jackman, Veer from Miga and J.K. Simmons. And really, I was a little bit looking forward to this film because on paper, when you hear about this movie, you got Jason Reitman directing and writing the film. You have Hugh Jackman portraying Gary Hart, which in a sense could be a very interesting character and an interesting story to be told within the political climate and these political movies and that sort. And you got J.K. Simmons coming in, you got Veer from Miga, who's probably one of the most underrated actresses in Hollywood, if I'm being completely honest. I'll say this, The Front Runner is good. I don't think it's The Front Runner for best picture or frontrunner for any Oscar caliber awards, but I still think it is a good movie. This film really reminds me of The Post from last year. It feels like The Post and a lot of inferences, where on paper, The Post is a great, if not an excellent film. But when you see it, it's just good. There's nothing hugely special about it. And The Front Runner is kind of the same way. There's nothing huge special about it. There's no big breakout performance where it's like, that's the Oscar winner there. Everyone does do a good job in here. J.K. Simmons is great. Hugh Jackman is fantastic. And Veer from Miga is good. They're all good in what they're doing. And one of the good things that I think Hugh Jackman really did nail as Gary Hart, isn't just portraying Gary Hart, but it's also showing the emotion and the stress that goes through a guy as these affairs are coming out, as he's trying to cover it up, as he's just trying to get around it and still become president. And it's a very intriguing story on that part. And the way they stagnated this whole movie from week one to week two, week three, because it takes like three weeks going in to the presidential election, is interesting. And sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I feel like sometimes the film became a little bit unfocused with what it was. There's so many characters, so many different things that you really only get to know a couple of them, but they try to focus on certain ones towards the ending that I felt like didn't need to be. But again, I was intrigued from this film, especially within the week two segment, there's so much to digest in that segment and so much to get into within it that I was so invested within it and think the score benefited the film by upgrading it to another layer. One of the other great things about the film though is the script. The script, the dialogue is all superb. It's just, you can tell all these actors has such a great time munching and digesting each and every one of these words and spewing it out on the screen. The story elements of the story structure could have been a little bit told better. It feels like nothing was ended up on the chopping block, but I think certain elements should have been addressed a little bit more. I think the relationship with Gary Hart and his wife should have been addressed a little bit more. I think the affair should have been tackled a little bit more. And I think some of the other things leading up to him as being this outstanding man and about to win the presidential election and then turns out that he has this affair and how is he going to handle it? I think some of those can have been focused on a little more. That's why I said this film feels a little bit unfocused. It focuses on certain things but never grabs on the one thing and tackles it hard. Yes, this film is tackling freedom of press. It's tackling who do you want in presidential office? Do you want this person? Do you want that person? Yeah, times people can say that this film is a little bit timely and what is going on in today's climate, political climate. We're not talking about that though because this is the movie and we're talking about the movie. But I feel like there could have been a little bit more different things here and there about the movie. Again, I didn't hate this movie. It just turned out good. I think this film could have been excellent. I think some of the unfocused stuff from the direction could have been a bit better. Again, Jason Reitman directed the film fine. There's nothing horrible about it. It's a fantastic script, a great score with some good performances in here that makes the film a little bit interesting watch. I like going to these films that really plop you into a different time segment in the world of history that United States history class will never teach you and you can learn a little bit more about something that you might have never known about and then it's up to you if you want to go back and see, okay, what was true, what was not, what's actually going on, what was other things that were going on. That's some of the best things about these movies. So with all that said, I'm going to give the frontrunner a B minus. Learned this movie or maybe you lived around that time and you want to hear more about it and see it on the big screen. It definitely is worth the watch. 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