Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

mikefenwick Jessica Chastain is awesome great story great twists

shaundavies1982 When the final scene ended, I actually mouthed the word "wow"! What a great film! A political thriller that is enjoyable and engaging. The cast's performances were out of this world. Gritty, satisfying and poignant.What a delight of a film.

babyaardvark-14565 The writing is really bad. I'm not talking about the plot, but the dialogue lacks both finesse and sometimes seems like it's been translated badly from another language into English. Take these two gems: DUPONT to SPERLING: "You know the root of the word "annihilate"? It's Latin. It means "to reduce to nothing". Ok, first, I'm pretty sure a US Senator knows what annihilate means why are they explaining to the audience?, second, it's derived from annihilare meaning "reduce to nothing", but the ROOT of annihilate is nihil, meaning "nothing". It's so awkward and clunky!! The playback in the courtroom makes it more effective but the dialogue is so dis-believable.SLOANE: "It rewards rats who are willing to sell out their country to keep their noses in the trough. Make no mistake, these rats are the real parasites on American democracy." The expression is pigs at the trough, and rats are vermin not parasites.I like Jessica Chastain, I think the lengthy dialogues and monologues killed her, she gets the timing breathing and emphasis in her phrasing wrong all the time, from the very beginning of the movie. It was distracting. The accents are bad, Lacy as a Southerner is painful, and is Connors supposed to be from Boston? Why do they even NEED accents??There is so much exposition and over explaining to the audience, there is so little nuance or deftness.In the end I didn't care about any of the characters, I didn't care whether the bill passed or was defeated. I didn't care if she went to jail or not. I had zero investment.I guess the surprise ending is satisfying, if also clunky, but I barely made it through.

itsreardon This is a tapestry of threads from polarized fronts about 2nd Amendment rights, morality and politicians who do not vote from their hearts.