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This film is rated Vanilla for excessive white. A biopic celebrating the life of the modern father of income inequality and a man who weaponized economics, militarized police forces all in to perpetuate systemic racism, homophobia and xenophobia. How about we not celebrate the villains of our time and instead tell their stories through the perspectives of those they hurt the most. Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Brian Mulroney were cancerous governance that have perverted the hopes and dreams of anyone born outside their accepted margins who may be trying to live a good, quality lawful life.

I hated this movie! The nine and ten star shills would say that makes me a "hater", but I'm not a hater of Reagan or his politics..I'm a hater of bad movies. BROTHER is this a bad movie! The pacing is just so off! Reaction shots are held for what seems like an eternity just so we can tell how earnest the actors are. The shots were needed I guess, because the performances of the actors never conveyed any real emotion. The actress portraying Nancy was soap opera bad and literally elicited audible groans from me at times then laughter the next. The camera blocking was completely inert, never doing anything interesting or compelling with angles or lighting, bringing it, once again, into the realm of daytime soap operas. I will say that Dennis Quaid does a serviceable job as Reagan, but the script and directing never gives him a chance to make the man human. It is as if the scriptwriter read a book of Reagan's most famous quotes, then wrote the script to zig-zag between them and loosely tie them together. Honestly, if I had been watching this at home, I would have turned it off after twenty minutes.

I don't even know where to start with this. I don't think the writer or director did either though... This is such a horrible excuse for a two and a half hour film. My ADHD was my biggest enemy to this film. I had whiplash of scene changes every 30 to 45 seconds of meaningless content, forcing me to crawl out of my skin and wiggle in my chair for the remaining time. For such a highly controversial man, this movie could've gone many different ways but this was not the one I expected. To begin: the fake American-"Russian" narration was a completely unnecessary tear from the Princess Bride. I felt like a child being told bedtime stories about Reagan. Meaningless very short bedtime stories. "Reagan hated commies" the end. Oh wait, was that a spoiler...? Which brings me to my next point: Zero information was relayed in this movie. I felt like I sat through a high school project that the creator cared nothing for. I take that back, they cared A LOT about horses. All in all, I wanted a film that either shows good or bad of Reagan. A healthy balance would've been preferred, but the lack of anything meaningful here is a true disappointment for any history or film buff.

So incredibly cheesy and bad (not in a good way) It started off ok with footage of the assassination attempt. It went downhill from there. For some reason Jon Voight is a retired Russian spy telling us the audience about his work in Hollywood. Apparently Ronnie saved Hollywood from Communism single-handedly. At least least that was what I got out of the first hour. The acting and dialogue was cheesy. I was hoping they would show a bit more a bit more about his acting career and time in hollywood but they just kind of glossed over it and concentrated on his time as time as the head of the screen actor's guild. His acting career started to go down the tubes and he was doing cigarette commercials. At this point I had to use the restroom and I just left the theater. Critics panned this film for a reason and I have to agree with them this time.