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Watch: Knife Fight 2012 123movies, Full Movie Online – If a political candidate is personally flawed, but stands to make a positive difference in millions of lives, would you help him win? That question looms over the life of “true believer” Paul Turner (Rob Lowe), a savvy strategist sharply maneuvering politicians out of scandal and into public office. With the help of a bright young assistant (Jamie Chung) and a seedy operative (Richard Schiff), Turner spins every news cycle and a shrewd reporter (Julie Bowen) on behalf of his clients: a philandering Kentucky governor (Eric McCormick), a blackmailed California senator (David Harbour), and an idealistic doctor turned gubernatorial candidate (Carrie-Anne Moss). When the ugly side of Turner’s work begins to haunt him, he learns that even in the bloodiest of battles, sometimes you have to fight clean..
Plot: A political strategist juggling three clients questions whether or not to take the high road as the ugly side of his work begins to haunt him.
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	5.2/10 Votes: 1,487
	28% | RottenTomatoes
	34/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 28 Popularity: 0.6 | TMDB

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The audience gets is a casserole of movie elements and little of the satisfaction that comes from watching these types of movies. It’s one of those films for which I could guess the plot exactly before I saw it. You can predict the whole movie and ending easily. Worse, these characters were walking cardboards. Overall, the film was…”eh”. I was bored through most of it and I left the living room with no intentions to ever see it again. From an artistic standpoint, there were some plot elements and character developments I didn’t think were totally needed. They do however drive the story, which seemed to be their purpose, so I can accept them.

Sharp high for Lowe
Knife Fight (2013) | USA, 100 minutes, Rated 14A (ON) NR (QC) | Reviewed 03/13, © Stephen Bourne

Rob Lowe returns to the big screen as San Francisco-based veteran political spin doctor Paul Turner in this unabashedly wry yet plodding mild satire from director Bill Guttentag. In Knife Fight, Turner callously juggles damage control duties handling the separate scandalous affairs of incumbents California senator Stephen Green (played by David Harbour) and Kentucky Governor Larry Becker (Eric McCormick), until an unforeseen consequence of Turner’s Machiavellian scheming and media manipulation results in pangs of unsettling conscience.

There are several clever moments of wonderfully insightful dialogue found throughout this 100-minute screening. Stanford University professor Guttentag’s work in documentaries has garnered him five Academy Award nominations and two Oscar wins, and his co-writer on this project, Chris Lehane, reportedly earned the title “Master of the Political Dark Arts” after serving as spin doctor for Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign and White House administration. Lehane and Guttentag also co-wrote the 2012 behind-the-scenes book The Masters of Disaster: The Ten Commandments of Damage Control. They know the landscape of contemporary American politics. You see it in this film. Sitting through Knife Fight, I couldn’t help wishing the comparably over-hyped and pedantic The Ides of March (2011) had been this woefully overlooked, often fascinating feature.

Lowe is incredible here, effortlessly carrying this picture while nailing his performance as charismatic yet oily Turner, skilfully manipulating public opinion by any means necessary to save his high profile clients from themselves. Top marks also go to McCormick’s wryly underplayed effort as philandering Governor Becker, Jamie Chung as Turner’s able and ambitious young intern Kerstin Rhee, and Richard Schiff’s part playing Turner’s muck-dredging go-to connection Dimitris Vargas. Surprisingly, many of the remaining supporting roles feel less memorable. Carrie-Anne Moss plays Bay Area Mission Clinic doctor Penelope Nelson, eager for Turner’s help in winning her own political bid, but her character and that story line seem so entirely peripheral and unnecessary to this movie the way it plays out. I might have been happier if Moss had played a slightly modified take on blackmailed war vet Senator Green instead of the Dr. Nelson role, for instance.

However, the most glaring flaw with Knife Fight is that Guttentag and Lehane’s screenplay has a tendency to grind to an unforgivable snail’s pace whenever the movie feels the need to indulge its long-winded Liberal musings about American politics and those involved. We know this flick is a satire. We get the point that greed is a humorous duality within human nature that can create and destroy with equal and conflicting force. The characters have just illustrated that. We laughed, they cried, it was better than Cats. Why then is it necessary for Turner to explain to Rhee what we’ve just seen? More than once! She’s not stupid. Neither are we. Much. So, doing so becomes redundant, preachy, and boring.

Speaking of boring, the official website at knifefightmovie.com/ is possibly the poorest aspect of this contemporary feature. No synopsis. No cast and crew blurbs. Just a bland, basic page with links to YouTube, Facebook and twitter, and a lame scrolling gallery of random photos, all dominated by the film’s politically-themed logo. Ooh, a logo! One that’s not even used on the hokey poster. Lame. I guess it’s a given that fans know by osmosis more source info can be found online at either the production company Divisadero Pictures or distributor IFC Films’ sites. Too bad, Knife Fight and its cast deserved a better marketing effort than this trite flip of the bird to a potential ticket-buying audience…

Definitely not an hilariously rollicking satire for anyone outside the cutthroat arena of politics, Knife Fight is still an insightfully satisfying piece of entertainment over-all and a great new big screen high for Lowe, McCormick, Chung and crew well worth checking out as a rental. Reviewed 03/13, © Stephen Bourne.

Knife Fight is rated 14A by the Ontario Film Review Board for limited use of slurs, coarse language, partial or full nudity in a brief sexual situation, illustrated or verbal references to drugs, alcohol or tobacco, embracing and kissing, tobacco use, and restrained portrayals of non-graphic violence, and is Not Rated by la Régie du Cinéma in Québec.

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Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 40 min (100 min) (USA)
Budget 7000000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama
Director Bill Guttentag
Writer Bill Guttentag, Chris Lehane
Actors Rob Lowe, Jamie Chung, Julie Bowen
Country United States
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