What Just Happened (2008)

I was thinking after viewing this that though it reminded me of Wag the Dog (an "inside a political campaign" ridicuthon), this "inside Hollywood" version can't hold a candle to it. It seemed as if the idea was stolen from the first film and set in a different world but without the freshness the first outing had.

The funny thing is that I hadn't remembered Robert De Niro starred in Wag the Dog and I'd probably never known that Barry Levinson served as director. That they filled the same roles in this new film just furthers the "trying to capture past glory" theory. They didn't succeed.

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