Search - Rudy - The Rudy Giuliani Story on DVD

A good film but lacks some items

Seth J. Frantzman | Jerusalem, Israel | 11/01/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This film based on a book called 'Rudy' is sopposed to tell the inside story of 'Americas Mayor'. It does a commendable job. It looks at Rudy's early courtship of Donna Hannover. It looks at Rudy's role in breaking the mafia and wall street, which gained him fame. It looks at Rudies first dismall election campaign and the pogroms and upheavels of the Dinkins stagnation. It looks at Rudy's many quirks and his affairs with Christine Latigano and his subsequent affair that ended his marriage. The meeting with Ray Harding of the Liberal party is portrayed well as is the infighting on his campaign and his relentless crusade to cut useless jobs at city hall.It looks at his conflict with Bracken and the Amadou Dialo killing. Yet the movies failure is in its odd portrayel of Sept 11th. Although the scenes are shocking the moves cinematography of the Sept 11th incident feels to much like a soap opera, rather then the 'real life' portrayel the directors were going for. I think the scenes could have been better. Nevertheless I loved the use of real footage from Sept 11th, soemthing we dotn see anough of. I was dismayed not to see more of Rudys crusade against the Bums, against the honking and throwing Arafat out of the U.N as well as his attack on the diplomatic parking problems in N.Y.Guliani was the biggest of the big mayors, like a modern day Laguardia. THis is a great film but it does lack somethings and does miss the boat in some scenes. The latigano affair was emphasized at the expense of losing coverage of some of the great quirks and crusades of the Guliani era which cleaned up the city."