The Hunting Of The President (2004)

9 out of 14 people found the following review helpful:

What a Mess

AlanQuatermain from West Yorkshire, 4th June, 2005

The subject of the right-wing political and media campaign to undermine and finally impeach President Clinton is rich and racy. But over and over again this jumbled film fails to explain any of the who, where and when - and so never gets near the why and the what-for. Important characters appear in the story unannounced, and are given no context or history; whereas minor characters are introduced with a mightly flourish, and never appear again. The use of ill-chosen feature film and TV drama clips to 'dramatise' the events adds further to confusion, as does the ceaseless doomy music which frequently renders inaudible Morgan Freemen's portentous and often muddy commentary.

When I saw the 20th Century Fox logo at the beginning of this pro-Clinton documentary, I thought it was rather ironic that noted Clinton-basher Rupert Murdoch was the film's distributor. However, the film is so dire, it may have been issued by Fox as a Clinton spoiler.

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5 out of 5 people found the following review helpful:

Shades of Mr Moore

A Customer from Bromley, 21st June, 2005

A fast moving documentary looking at Clinton's alleged enemies and the methods they apparently used to attempt to depose him. Entertaining, but not as competent as Michael Moore's commentaries on not dissimilar themes. Too fast moving to take in at one viewing, but well worth a look, or even two.

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2 out of 2 people found the following review helpful:

A well put together documentary

Graham Kerr from Scotland, 13th October, 2005

For those who have watched Michael Moore's docs, and The corporation, this is another one to add to your watch list. It's a well put together documentary on how the republicans and others were trying to discredit and disable the Clinton White House. A look into how american politics work which leaves you a little worried. It's definitely coming from a pro Clinton angle, but you could guess that from the title and that doesn't work against it as a documentary piece. It asks wider questions about politics in America.

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2 out of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Fair account

Discerning from from Cheshunt, Herts, 8th December, 2005

After watching Farenheit 9/11, I found this film very tame. It was certainly interesting and illuminating - just not particularly exhilarating in comparison. Worth watching if you have a particular interest in American politics/culture.

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1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:

eternal12 from , 25th March, 2009

This was not my cup of tea, switched off after 10 minutes.

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The Hunting of the President

A Customer from Oswestry, 30th July, 2008

Dull and Boring and hard to follow.

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watch this history is not as it seems

A Customer from UK North, 29th November, 2006

A Very surpisingly good documentary about the smearing of the best president since LBJ. Shocking what the press did not tell at the time , to busy smearing clinton than checking if their facts were acurate.

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Boring politics

A Customer from Birmingham, 22nd September, 2006

one of the worst films ive seen not really interested in any politics, only a true fan would really like this drivel........

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