A mix of Glengarry Glen Ross in a political setting and Dr. Strangelove without the slapstick, it's brutally in your face and incredibly funny. Superb writing and great characters make it fly by with hardly a chance to catch your breath, a rarity in dialogue driven films.

Fully ballin' satire; the British Office meets The West Wing meets Dr. Stangelove. Very funny and profane and dark. Peter Capaldi is hilarious. Fuckity bye!

hilarious movie, does a good job at transcribing the idiosyncrasies of governments

Hysterical. Peter Capaldi and David Rasche steal the show. Absurdist, yes, but it manages to maintain a remarkable sense of authenticity and never feels over the top.

A very tight and efficient script full of some of the most profound and profane material of the year--very smart, very subversive, and actually enlightening. It's difficult to understand what they're saying sometimes, though.

Exceedingly satirical parody of British and American politics. Mostly a lot of bad acting, humorous cussing and deadpan humor. Some of the situations were funny, but only a few actual laugh out loud moments. Otherwise just a tedious British parody that is actually quite cynical and childish.

The actors are real pros, and can well handle the rapid-fire dialogue, probably better than the overwhelmed viewer can handle it. The raggedy documentary-style camerawork, on top of it, generates an excess of turbulence.

Laser-guided precision political satire that manages to sustain it's joke barrage from the opening scene until the last, at which point hilarity gives way to depression as you realize it probably isn't too far from the truth.

shows only half of the truth about how war was declared... the business and oil reasons are not even touched and neither the corruption in governments

Consistently funny but the story as a whole is not as good as its dialogues.

british people say bad words

If there's a G-rated trailer of this, Peter Capaldi must not be in it. Fuckity byeeeeee.

His mouth is full of curses and lies and threats; trouble and evil are under his tongue. Psalm 10:7. Entertaining movie.

Overall, I liked this, though I can't really say why exactly. There were definitely some hilarious moments and interesting characters. How's that for a pointless review? Difficult, difficult, lemon difficult.

A movie that exceeded almost all of my expectations. The dialogue was about as good as you are going to get, and I think this is a movie that both people who are into politics and people who think politics is horrible will enjoy. My only problem was that I never felt I really knew what was going on entirely until the very end. That might have been what they were going for but I felt like I was missing something. Still a very enjoyable movie.

Very funny, but I felt bad laughing at the jokes, and so I didn't love this as much as I should have. Yes, satire is good, and it's important to laugh at the idiots who got us into the mess, but their decisions are still resulting in deaths, right now... so having a laugh about "how evil we were" feels callous.

I find the tv-series (The Thick Of It) more elegant, still it is a very funny and rude movie that manages to be a bit intelligent on the side.

Capaldi is brilliant and the rest of the cast isn't too shabby either. The dialogue makes art of cursing.

What I was wondering is whether or not The Office (UK) would be as tired as this if it had to be full length movie, instead of BBC miniseries. It works as a political satire, but shows clearly the advantages of the 20 min TV format for this kind of stuff.

A smart, concise and at times hilarious political satire. Capaldi is phenomenal as Malcolm Tucker, the rest of the cast is great aswell. The overuse of profanity detracts from what could've been a more serious and thoughtful film, but I still had a blast. Recommended !!!

Magnificent, tour-de-force political satire from Iannucci and co. Some of the most creative insults I have ever heard, but it's not just about the swearing, there's so much more to it than that. The way modern politics are, you've got to laugh or you'd cry. Fantastic.

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