Jeremy Strong, left, and Sebastian Stan appear in a promotional image from The Apprentice. The Canadian co-production follows the early years of ex-U.S. President Donald Trump.
As a biopic, The Apprentice is entirely unsure of the man it seeks to assess — perhaps understandably, as its star is very much still living and forging the legacy any such film would need to define.Jeremy Strong, left, and Sebastian Stan appear in a promotional image from The Apprentice. The Canadian co-production follows the early years of former U.S. president Donald Trump.
Not just for the stutteringly sudden way we jump into it, this opening is an awkward jumping-off point that sets the tone for the half-character study, half-cultural criticism to follow. Because that insecurity plays into the full version of Trump that Abbasi and the film's writer, Gabriel Sherman, obviously seek to paint, the biopic doesn't make its arguments with any sense of certainty.
In the world of Abbasi's film, Trump's father may be partly to blame for the pressure he puts on his son. Or is it the amphetamines this Trump used to constantly keep him awake, as he "can't make deals when he's sleeping?"paints with a public access TV-like filter. And maybe it is simply the influence of one man, Roy Cohn, who functions here as a tragically effective guiding light into the world of professional double-dealing.
's character study does allow it to focus on the genuinely entertaining and engrossing gambits of its protagonist.
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