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Fantastic!

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

When you read the comment on this film, that it's smart and funny political comedy based on true events - the only true word here is that it's a comedy. If you're told it's insider movie about Russian politics - it's not. There's probably only 2% in the movie from what really happened in Russia during that election-campaign. In reality of the 1996 it was thousand times more interesting to follow the situation and that was a real funky election-campaign. Well, there were PR-advisers from the US working in the Yeltsin's staff, but their role was just minimal. The whole campaign was totally different from what is shown in the movie, it would be much funnier showing all the president's people riding across the country with paper boxes full of cash, and the celebrities giving the shows to support Yeltsin all over the place - at least that would be true. I give it three only because of the respect to Jeff Goldblum, Antony LaPagglia, and Liev Schreiber. And about the machine guns on the streets of Moscow. I was living in the place that had the highest amount of hard crime in Russia in the middle of 90-s and never seen a man with the gun on the street.

I really liked this movie, it shows what happens behind the political sceen in many elections and many countries. All though the elections most likely are not this corrupt in many countries it really gives you something to think about. I also think that it shows how politicians become like prostitutes in elections were there are very little real understanding among the people for the different ideologis represented in the election. Spinning Boris really shows how politicians have to be populists to become elected. Great movie!

"Spinning Boris" (aka "The Yeltsin Project") is a modern masterpiece. Political satire doesn't get better than this. But don't expect mindless entertainment -- this movie is for people who like to think for themselves, and think they will. Jokes, ideas, references, and body blows come at you, fast and furious, so don't blink. And you'll probably have to see it again, to get all the subtleties and hidden gems. 10 out of 10.

There is a french saying, "la réalité dépasse la fiction", truth beats fiction. Think about it. The reason why Spinning Boris rings so true, including seemingly trivial details, is that things can happen this way - I know from personal experience with both politics and Eastern Europe. Nobody would be foolish enough to present this movie as a documentary (and by the way, why wait until Yeltsin was completely out of the picture ?), but insiders will wink at each other. Remember Primary Colors - and think about it.