SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

lord woodburry Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story (2003)emerged from the ashes of the world trade centre to less than positive reviews. Yet if there were a man who deserves credit for holding the country together at that difficult moment it was Rudy Giuliani. And this movie covers the pluses and the minuses of his administration.The whole sequence of 9 - 11 is a difficult subject matter to approach because it reveals flaws in the US system and the American personality. Lets go back to 9 - 11 at 9, the person who calls himself the war president, a man who had come to power in a cloudy election which bordered on a coup d'etat vanished into the mist. Rudy Giuliani grabbed the microphones and held the nation together. What kind of man does that? Is he a good family man? Well, no. While he was mayor he was carrying on an affair with a staffer whom he appointed a Commissioner. He put her aside and took on another girlfriend. His incumbent wife learned of his plans to divorce her from the newspapers. Still another former wife was on the payroll in the Park's Department.Did he come from good family? Well, not exactly. Though famed as a crime fighter, Rudy acknowledged his father had done time.Did he act sensibly and with restraint? Perhaps not. Though Rudy is much lauded for a crack down on the Mafia, city police were in fact arresting bicyclists for failing to carry identification and other picayune infractions.Were his police effective and well disciplined? Well no. The Finest as shown in this movie gunned down a Bronx householder who was attempting to show identification. The movie didn't talk about the other well known transgression of morality, a sexual assault apparently sanctioned by an entire precinct.However, the man of the moment on 9 - 11 was Big Rudy and for all the ill that can be said of him he deserves credit for his actions that day. James woods captures the man and the moment in a grand eloquent performance.

christianlatt123 My main question regards the motivation behind this story. Firstly, does it aim to provide an informative account of Rudy or simply cash in on September 11? Moreover, if his biography is intended to be paramount , I am not sure whether it glorifies or condemn his character.On the whole, i thought this movie was poor. The production values were terrible, to say the very least. As was the handling of the events of September 11. To include such emotive footage of that day is dangerous, especially when Rudy exclaims "what have these bastards done to my city?". From an objective standpoint this line was simply ectopic in the context of the movie, almost adding light to the situation. The following "women and children first" dialogue seems misplaced in the terror and hysteria of the situation.

katie-130 As a New Yorker, I am proud of Giuliani and felt that viewers of "Rudy" would walk away with the impression that the mayor did little for his city. When I tuned in to this film, I thought I was going to watch a film that would really do justice to Rudy Giuliani's work as mayor. Instead, the screenplay focused on Giuliani's extra-marital relationships. His work to eliminate organized crime did not appear to be an enormous challenge in this film, and the screenwriter did not seem to care about accenting Giuliani's accomplishments. He was more concerned with reducing Giuliani to the status of an adulterer. The continuous focus on Giuliani's love life made his commitment to lower the crime laws look like a trivial accomplishment and the portrayal of his battle with cancer made him look weak rather than stoic. If, as James Woods said, this is a film that without Rudy-bashing, I cannot imagine what those who disprove of the politician would produce. Viewers would benefit from finding another way to spend two hours of their lives.

shp22 I'll start by saying I'm a fan of Mr. Giuliani and read his book, Leadership. So I was very disappointed by this movie for several reasons.The script is extremely flat. Yes, it does show that Giuliani had a temper, liked opera and loved the law. But in a way that made me think the writer had a checklist to work from. And one that did not include Giuliani's lighter side. The script barely allows him to smile or laugh or enjoy the people around him. For example, it could have included his appearances on Saturday Night Live, his second Mayoral race and the image problem he had to overcome or his friendship with Joe Torre and the Yankees. Indeed, SHOWING his relationship to the team, rather than just SAYING he loved them, would have done wonders for showing him as the proudest New Yorker. And making an effort to portray has relationship with his children would have been nice, too.The people around Giuliani rarely react to him. For example, on becoming the lead Federal Prosecutor in Manhattan, he tells a roomful of Federal Prosecutors that they have gotten fat and lazy and no one reacts in any way. He explains to a roomful of prosecutors how he will take down the Mafia on conspiracy to violate RICO laws (which he reminds them he wrote) and again, no one reacts. The most frequent reaction is silent bustling in response to the scripted tirades. He's often "right", but he's not even allowed to enjoy outsmarting the other guy (a la Jack McCoy of Law & Order).I've seen the movie twice now (hoping it would be better) and still don't know why the 9/11 events are done in flashback throughout the movie. My only guess is they couldn't figure out how to end it otherwise.Overall, I think that Rudy Giuliani deserved a much better biography. Hopefully someone will do it someday.