Our Brand is Crisis (DVD)

Well paced, entertaining, with great performances - about paid US strategic involvement in a S. American election. Bullock plays a disaffected former political strategist who gets pulled back in the game, wins the game, and regrets the outcome. Some laugh out loud moments, but also plenty to engage someone who likes political thrillers, and also plenty to think about in terms of how politics operates as a zero-sum game in a world in need of nuanced understanding. Not the Sandra Bullock of romantic comedy fame, so if you're looking for bouncy romance you're not going to find it here. But she shows herself as a versitile actor worthly of thoughtful roles. The ending is subtly hopeful.

An Excellent film. Unfortunately, Americans will think that the story is boring and perhaps unreal or just wont 'get it'.... but as comedic and 'light hearted' the filmmakers have made this film, its not only powerful, but REALLY depicts what happens with elections in the developing world, (especially in the Americas') and how American Govt. consultancy and political interventions work! But unfortunately (once again), a film like this will just go unnoticed... Which it has. Try 'Notice' who the Co-Executive Producers are! I think its done a good job, making real stories look sexy and entertaining. Ignore the reviews! Its a GREAT movie!

The movie was excellent all the way up to the last 20 minutes ... but I won't spoil the unhappy ending. It leaves the audience with a "resistence is futile" message, so that Felt like the rest of the movie was a waste of time. I watch movies to be entertained and to walk away feeling good at the end. This was just sad.Parental Guidence* No blatant nudity (there is bra and panty scene), but heavy cursing runs throught the movie.

When I look at a film and I am asked to rate it I think back to what stands out the most. Was it the characters that where fleshed out so much that I wasn't reminded or thinking in anyway of other characters an actor might have played in the past. Was it the story line, something new and refreshing, something that is "based on" to historical fact or an event but runs so close to the actual event that your not taken for a fool. Perhaps it was just so entertaining that you sat back and enjoyed yourself for the hour and half or so that it took to watch it that you really didn't care about all the other. This film just slightly missed on all of the above.Sandra Bullock's character was good, but I could see more than once another past character of hers coming to mind during a scene. Same with Billy Bob Thornton, he seemed to have rolled quite a few of his characters into this performance. As I am sitting here writing this I remember there actual names, but for the life of me I can't remember the characters names. It should be the opposite, or at the very least I should remember the character's names. What I do remember is at times a clunky version of many films or bits of films put together. How many movies start from the point of view of a character being asked a question in an interview and you are transported "back in time" to the very beginning where it all started. How many times have you had two characters spar back in forth in a dark comedy sort of way, or someone having to be persuaded out of retirement to comes save the day, or they had melt down and went into hiding away from everything and you have shots of a car driving through what seems like endless landscape to find them. How many times....how many times. That is what this film is. A bunch of scenes from other movies mushed together into this story. A bunch of characters from past roles of the actors mushed into this film. It's an ok film, but I feel like I have seen it all before including the ending.

I'm pretty sure this one came and went in 2015 with little to no recognition except for bad reviews. I personally love it. This is Sandra Bullock's show and everyone else is just along for the ride. Even though it might not give the viewer any new information as to how political campaigns work, I think from time to time it doesn't hurt to be reminded. And I think it speaks to the absurdity of politics and voting. It's pretty fun too. As always, just my opinion.

I admit that I decided to watch Our Brand Is Crisis after seeing it featured at a Costco store this past Wednesday. Our Brand is Crisis stars Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton,Anthony Mackie,Zoe Karzan, Joaquim de Almeida (and other actors/actresses) in a movie about how public relations specialists played an influential role in a major election. Eerily, watching Our Brand Is Crisis had me wondering how the movie may have parallels in American society and the relation to media coverage. Watching Our Brand Is Crisis also helped give me unexpected perspective in the shadowy side of human nature when it comes to whether candidates address the economic concerns of people from the middle and lower socio-economic classes.

I hope it works for you cause it wouldn’t work for us. All we could see was vague figures. We tried 3 times and it was not watchable

I very much enjoyed this film. What a fascinating perspective on the issues that drive elections in South America. It is exceptionally well done with marvelous character development and superb cinematography.I thought the ending was a stupid cliché but I can forgive it because the ending I'm referring to was more of an epilogue. The actual "end" of the film, in my view, should've been when she took to the streets. Not when it's years later and she has her stupid charity thing. That felt hackneyed, but it was forgiveable.