ManoNimat Spoiler Alert: Romney loses the election! This film covered almost nothing new for me, only serving to reinforce the ambivalent (but ultimately negative) view I had of Romney. This film showed us that he has the same stiff, almost prissy walk when he's mincing around his hotel room picking up trash as when he struts out on stage for a debate. He had a little bit better sense of humor than I'd realized, but as I had suspected, he was not nearly as self-confident as he presents in public (though he comes off as quite confident). I suppose the most revealing thing about the film was that even Romney didn't seem to believe his own BS. In sum, he's a very good husband and father, a perversely motivated candidate, a disconnected, unconvincing (and unconvinced) politician who would have been a disaster as President. Two big omissions from the film: 1) any coverage of the third debate when Romney had his testicles handed to him by BHO (Obama having been given said testies as a trophy from Candy Crawley after the second debate). 2) Any discussion of the spectacular failings of the Romney campaign's much-vaunted Project Orca, a get-out-the-vote technology system which crashed and burned on Election Day. Previous press accounts had the overconfident Romney camp believing victory was assured up to and well into Election Day. The footage in this little documentary completely fails to capture that ethos, with the footage shown indicating that the Romneys were quite prepared to lose, almost resigned to defeat even. This documentary would've been much stronger if it had been able to reconcile and explain that discrepancy better. A word about ratings: A rating of 5 indicates a film I would probably see again. A rating of 6 indicates a film I would recommend to another person. A rating of 4 indicates a film which I would neither see again, nor recommend to another person. This film merits a 4. Not sorry I watched it, but nothing to recommend either.

redbushy This is a fairly superficial, nicely apolitical behind the scenes look at Mitt Romney's 2008 and 2012 campaigns. This is a window in to a world that we don't often get, so take a look for yourself.I felt it humanized Romney and he came across as a decent and likable person, but I was left feeling that both his campaigns were lightweight and unsure. Either many of the decision- making discussions filmed with his family were largely inconsequential banter for the cameras, or his candidacy was poorly organized and not really thought through.The biggest takeaway from the movie for me is that our political candidates are not superheroes (or for that matter super-villains). They are very human people with just as many quirks, insecurities and limitations as me, you or the people we interact with every day.Don't put celebrity politicians on a pedestal, to be worshiped or to be loathed. They are just people like us.

SozeTheKeyser Mitt Romney seems like a nice man, and that pretty much sums up what I got out of this documentary. But apart from that, I didn't feel like I really learned anything.If the object was to make Mitt seem human, it does do a good job of this, but as far as providing an insightful look behind the curtain it falls short. There is a sort of a discrepancy between the use of "one cameraman/interviewer with his hand-held camera" signifying bare honesty and how often the scenes seem set-up and "for the camera". Ultimately; this means that it often comes off as a bit disingenuous, and that you're only scratching the surface, rather than getting to know the deeper truth about a man and his political life.

takashi_kupo This film has absolutely no crossover appeal. The whole point of it isn't to recap the last 8 years of Mitt Romney's life. It's to show the human side of him and the toll that it took on his family. It's pretty affective too at some points, like when we see how good of a wife that Ann Romney is behind the scenes, telling her husband to have conviction from his heart.There's a few really intimate moments that you should watch out for which tug at the heart strings, but they never really quite tug in a really strong way. You won't cry, you want laugh, but you will smile. This is strictly a documentary for politicos. One problem a cinephile might have is the really bad quality of half the shots. Some of them are extremely grainy like you're watching a youtube video. The score sucks, too. And the overall atmosphere that the film creates makes you want to fall asleep. In conclusion, if you're not obsessed with politics, stay away. It's boring.