I am bitterly disappointed by this. It's got an interesting premise and an outrageous cast, but I just couldn't get into it at all. I didn't think the mystery was all that intriguing in the end, the characters were paper thin and Robert De Niro's character has some kind of cognitive decline which makes him an unreliable narrator, so you don't know what's going on, but I just found it annoying. The premise is decent enough to just play it straight and provide a solid political thriller, I just don't think it needs all that added nonsense.
Not for me, very underwhelming.
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