Knife Fight is a 2012 political-drama that had a very limited theatrical released and, in terms of acting and production quality, it's more in line with a made for TV movie than a big screen flick.
The movie centers around a political strategy team lead by Paul Turner (played by Rob Lowe) as well as the candidates he's helping to get elected. Turner acknowledges that basically all politicians are flawed, but he's a master of spinning the news stories to their advantage. Turner trying to find ways to minimize the self-inflicted damage the candidates do to themselves and their election chances was the most interesting aspect of the movie to me. His current clients include Kentucky governor (played by Eric McCormick) who had an affair with an intern, a California senator
(played by David Harbour) who is being blackmailed, and an idealistic doctor (played by Carrie-Anne Moss) who is running for govenor of Califorinia dispite having virtually zero name recognition and being told repeatedly by Turner that she is a long-shot candidate. Rob Lowe is good in the film but the rest of the characters are pretty bland.
Overall, if you like films about politics and/or are specifically interested in what happens behind the scenes of political campaigns then you'll probably like this one. I was fairly entertained but, I didn't think it was a great movie.
I give this one a 2 out of 5.
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