Our Review
- Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, Maria Bakalova
- October 18th 2024
- 122
- Ali Abbasi
Sebastian Stan plays Donald Trump in the early days of his career when he was a burgeoning property mogul.
With weeks to go until the U.S. presidential election, Republican nominee Donald Trump is the focus of a new film, The Apprentice.
The film, directed by Ali Abbasi, is set in the ’70s and ’80s and shows how Trump, then a burgeoning property mogul in New York City, became the controversial figure he is today.
The story is told through the lens of Trump’s friendship with lawyer and political hitman Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong).
Trump turns to him for help getting a lawsuit dismissed and the unrepentant and corrupt Cohn becomes his mentor.
Initially, it seems like the film is going too easy on Trump and making him too normal and sympathetic, particularly compared to the despicable Cohn.
However, over the course of the film, Trump evolves into a Cohn-like person and gradually becomes more and more of a monster.
Strong, who is essentially playing an amped-up version of his Succession character Kendall Roy, steals the...
