It's well performed but it felt a bit airy. As if the film were saying "Well, I'm sure you all remember this part" I only sort of do though

Blair was portrayed very well in this film, but the actor portraying Clinton doesn't look like him

Let the whitewashing commence. Blair is still the adorable Bambi from The Queen, oddly bereft of fits of prayer and megalomania.

Well performed political drama especially by - and I can't believe I'm saying it - Quaid. Its easily watchable, just looks rather bland even for politics and Morgan's screenplay seems to leave Blair rather unchanged which doesn't seem to ring true.

Not that dramatically powerful and doesn't have much to say about the Clintons, but does have an interesting perspective on Tony Blair.

It's an interesting topic with some excellent performances, particularly by Quaid. But it's a bit clunky and ham fisted, lacking Morgan's steady hand as director. I think this would become better in hindsight with an examination of Blair's relationship with George Bush.

The mix of original footage and the "faked" ones kinda threw me off at first, and I thought the film was a bit too soft on Blair. Still an interesting movie though and worth a watch.

The Peter Morgan Recipe: Step 1: Take a historical political person (Queen Elizabeth, Nixon, Clinton). Step 2: Take another historical person, preferebly played by Michael Sheen, to cross swords with the first person (Blair, Frost, Blair). Step 3: Take a historical event to make it important (Diana's Death, Watergate, War in Kosovo). Mix it all up nicely and you've got a movie :) Quaid is by the way amazing (but so was Mirren and Langella...)

Much more involving than Morgan's earlier Blair drama The Queen, The Special Relationship chooses an often-overlooked subject and manages to turn it into a fascinating look at Anglo-American politics. It's a little heavy-handed on the Bush-era allegory sometimes, but Sheen and Quaid are spot on (as are Davis and McCrory in their First Wives roles), and the whole thing is hard to fault.