NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Iseerphia All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

grantss A conservative folk singer, Bob Roberts, turns his hand to politics, running for the US Senate. He sets about organising rallies, singing songs to get his message across. He is not above using dirty tricks and smears to gain an advantage over his opponent. Meanwhile, a reporter is investigating Roberts's potential involvement in a drug ring.Written by, directed by and starring Tim Robbins, this is a brilliant satire on US politics. Quite accurate in depicting the lengths politicians will go to for power, and quite funny at times in how ridiculous they look doing it.Very relevant, at any time. Always good to be reminded of the type of people that are asking you to vote for them.Great ending - wonderful twist. Very powerful and profound.

SnoopyStyle A filmmaker documents the rise of right wing folk singer Bob Roberts (Tim Robbins) as he runs for the Pennsylvanian Senate seat. Fringe reporter Bugs Raplin (Giancarlo Esposito) is investigating the murky connections of the campaign to drug smuggling. Lukas Hart III (Alan Rickman) is a behind the scenes operator and Chet MacGregor (Ray Wise) runs the campaign. Roberts is well connected to Wall Street inverting the rebel image. His campaign team is often trading stocks on the bus.The aspect that bugged me most is the folk singer aspect. There is something old and tired about folk singing that shouldn't fit this concept. While I understand the corrupting of 60's idealism, it needs to bring it up to the 90's instead. Roberts never quite feels real. The movie needs him to be real. I do like Giancarlo Esposito and there is a lot in terms of skewering the political system. In general, this is a fine satire of the American political system.

Gordon-11 This film is about a singer's campaign to run for the Senate, against tough competition from the current Senator.Lots go on in the campaign for the Senate, so the plot is naturally fast paced and confusing. One minute, you see supporters of Bob Roberts praising him, another minute there are haters who say Bob Roberts have done illegal dealings. Maybe it is the filmmakers' wish to make it ambiguous as to which side is right, but there is one shot towards the end that makes the whole argument pretty clear.The songs are nice, but I think it is far too prominent in the the film. We are forced to watch the whole fake music video, or watch the whole live performance of a song many times in the film. The flow would have been better if we were just shown snippets of songs.

mdavis-53 If you think this movie is not commentary you've missed the point entirely. Satire is commentary. It is always commentary. This movie is a comment on all those politicians who do what Bob Roberts does in this movie--and if he doesn't resemble a Republican or two we have come too well to know in this country, well, then, I suppose you may as well believe you can have satire without commentary. And there's a bridge that might interest you.Other than, that it's a very effective satire and hits its mark 9 times out of ten. Gore Vidal is...well, he's Gore Vidal in this movie, and that's quite enough, of course.And Tim Robbins? Well, that's my point. Let's just say this: he's not Republican!