The Ides of March

Politics is a dirty, stinking, putrid game of backstabbing, shady deals, lying and cheating. And that is from the people on the same team!

The Ides of March follows the campaign of democratic governor Mike Morris' (George Clooney) race for the presidency. The head of his campaign is Paul Zara (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who values loyalty over absolutely anything else, hence when his lieutenant in the campaign, Stephen Meyers (Ryan Gosling) takes a meeting with, Tom Duffy (Paul Giamatti), the campaign manager of a rival democratic hopeful...well, lets just say that the stinky results of a bowel movement really hit the rotary blades of a device designed to cool a room.

There are many ins and outs in this movie, tonnes of back room dealing, selling out friends, and just selling your soul...But it pretty much shows that politics is just as dirty as you would believe it to be.

I give Ides of March four stars out of five.