Peter Morgan is back at it again with this craftily scripted dramatic reconstruction of the political and personal chemistry between Bill Clinton and Tony Blair from Blair's initial 1992 introduction to the Clinton political machine, through Northern Ireland, Kosovo, the Lewinsky affair to the finale with the birth of Blair's disastrous alliance with Bush.
Blair actually comes out of this rather well, his initial naivete maturing into a series of moral and political triumphs... it just all seems such a shame that we didn't get Al Gore as our consequent political puppet master.