The Ides Of March- Film Review

'The Ides of March' is George Clooney's 4th directed film.It was produced and the screenplay was written by him too. The films revolves around Ryan Gosling's character Stephen Meyers who's a Junior Campaign Manager for Mike Morris (Clooney)as he is running for the leader of the Democrats & Presidential Candidate. He is soon offered a job by the Campaign Manager of the other Democratic candidates. Also finding out dark secrets about his boss (Clooney) he starts to doubt where he belongs as he has always said he works for what he believes in.

I like George Clooney. 'Up In The Air' is one of my favourite comedies and I've always seen him as a pretty great actor. I thought it would be interesting to see if i had a similar reaction to his directing. I didn't. Maybe politics just isn't my thing but still I must have found it at least a bit interesting. Paul Giamatti & Phillip Seymour Hoffman are both actors I really like and for me they didn't make me enjoy the film any more than It would have done without them. The trailer really set up the film as an exciting pacey political thriller but all the main plot points were placed so far apart that it felt like it was going on for hours. If Clooney had so much control over this film then George Clooney has really gone down on my lists.


I haven't seen alot of what Ryan Gosling does but apparently he has tendencies to be a bit dull and lifeless and this being the only major role I've seen him do, my expectations were met. My general boredom of the characters just got me hoping that someone would die or something so it could all come to a finish.



I always think if there's nothing positive to say then say nothing so I'll finish here. I didn't like it. Maybe it's just not my cup of tea, but i wouldn't watch it again.



4/10 Top Tip- Have a nice little sleep while you're watching. Chances are you won't miss much.