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The Apprentice Gets Dumber the Longer It Goes On
Director Ali Abbasi’s portrait of a young Donald Trump never lives up to its strongest performance: Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn.
The timing doesn’t necessarily work (the so-called “reality-TV revolution” came much later), but the garbage world of reality TV is of course what eventually returned the once-defeated Trump to relevancy, transforming him into a modern celebrity the way it’s turned so many unspeakable idiots into 21st-century cultural icons. The film pretty much abandons the character and his story to signposts from now-familiar revelations: his adulteries, his ignoring his kids, his stiffing of workers, his collaboration with the mob, his diet pills, his hair treatments, his rape of Ivana. Along the way, we get appearances from Rupert Murdoch (Tom Barnett), Ed Koch (Ian D. Clark), Andy Warhol (Bruce Beaton), and Roger Stone (Mark Rendall), who, having gone from essentially being Cohn’s cabana boy to a GOP campaign strategist, tests out one of Reagan’s 1980 slogans on Trump: “Let’s Make America Great Again.”
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