The Contender
viewers reviews
'Sentiment: Negative ☹️'
This is a really good film, much better than the 6.9 it has here. However, if you watch it on Amazon Video, DO NOT watch the trailer.
Incredibly the idiots who set this up make the actual key scene, the whole twist upon which the movie stands, the trailer.The WHOLE SCENE.Absolute idiots.
'Sentiment: Positive 🙂'
This movie is a thousand times more relevant in 2020 than it was when it came out twenty years ago. This is a film about corrupt politicians (I mean, Trump is president...), sex scandals (#MeToo), and the double standard of what is moral in the eyes of the American people. "The Contender" might be a bit heavy handed towards the end, but aside from that, it is an incredibly poignant and powerful political thriller.
'Sentiment: Negative ☹️'
The propaganda in this movie is so blatant and so obvious that it even turns a liberal sick. Hollywood is at its best when it uses subtlety. But the plot is so contrived and unrealistic that any sensitive viewer cringes at it. One can support all or many of the view points expressed in the movie but having it shoved down the viewers' throats just turns people off. The ending is unreal and inaccurate. Congress just does not do things the way the movie depicts Congress doing in the end. This movie is so full of garbage it just stinks up the theater. The ending is pure Hollywood fantasy.
