ManoNimat Spoiler Alert: Romney loses the election! This film covered almost nothing new for me, only serving to reinforce the ambivalent (but ultimately negative) view I had of Romney. This film showed us that he has the same stiff, almost prissy walk when he's mincing around his hotel room picking up trash as when he struts out on stage for a debate. He had a little bit better sense of humor than I'd realized, but as I had suspected, he was not nearly as self-confident as he presents in public (though he comes off as quite confident). I suppose the most revealing thing about the film was that even Romney didn't seem to believe his own BS. In sum, he's a very good husband and father, a perversely motivated candidate, a disconnected, unconvincing (and unconvinced) politician who would have been a disaster as President. Two big omissions from the film: 1) any coverage of the third debate when Romney had his testicles handed to him by BHO (Obama having been given said testies as a trophy from Candy Crawley after the second debate). 2) Any discussion of the spectacular failings of the Romney campaign's much-vaunted Project Orca, a get-out-the-vote technology system which crashed and burned on Election Day. Previous press accounts had the overconfident Romney camp believing victory was assured up to and well into Election Day. The footage in this little documentary completely fails to capture that ethos, with the footage shown indicating that the Romneys were quite prepared to lose, almost resigned to defeat even. This documentary would've been much stronger if it had been able to reconcile and explain that discrepancy better. A word about ratings: A rating of 5 indicates a film I would probably see again. A rating of 6 indicates a film I would recommend to another person. A rating of 4 indicates a film which I would neither see again, nor recommend to another person. This film merits a 4. Not sorry I watched it, but nothing to recommend either.

takashi_kupo This film has absolutely no crossover appeal. The whole point of it isn't to recap the last 8 years of Mitt Romney's life. It's to show the human side of him and the toll that it took on his family. It's pretty affective too at some points, like when we see how good of a wife that Ann Romney is behind the scenes, telling her husband to have conviction from his heart.There's a few really intimate moments that you should watch out for which tug at the heart strings, but they never really quite tug in a really strong way. You won't cry, you want laugh, but you will smile. This is strictly a documentary for politicos. One problem a cinephile might have is the really bad quality of half the shots. Some of them are extremely grainy like you're watching a youtube video. The score sucks, too. And the overall atmosphere that the film creates makes you want to fall asleep. In conclusion, if you're not obsessed with politics, stay away. It's boring.

wzevonfan In one of the earliest scenes of "Mitt," we hear Governor Romney giving a speech at a fund-raiser about the failure of previous presidential candidates: how the loss of an election is irreparable and indelible thing to endure. "Michael Dukakis can't get a job mowing lawns" he says to the crowd, holding up a L sign to his forehead for everyone to see. The comment (which Romney said all the way back in 2008) was a jest made in a climate of optimism and hope-a time when the former Governor of Massachusetts still had a chance at political victory. And yet, it is also an eerily prescient statement of things to come.Fast forward to the day after the election in 2012. Romney enters into his living room with his wife in tow-slumps down into a chair, and stairs plaintively out the window overlooking his backyard. Though Mitt does not speak in that moment, we know that those words he uttered years before at the convention are resonating in his mind. Aspirations dashed, his life is finished; you could not write a more tragically ironic ending to the failed presidential saga of Willard Romney if you tried.This is where the documentary "Mitt" is successful: in humanizing a process (and a man at the center of that process) that otherwise seems so sterile, competitive, and polished to the rest of us. It is only a political film in that it captures the world of politics: it takes no sides on the issues of the debate. Indeed, the best moments are those that show Mitt as a man plagued by doubts, anxieties, setbacks, and yes, even sleeve-related wardrobe problems. Just when Mitt Romney is leading in the primary polls of 2008, the Governor of Florida comes out in support of John McCain and quashes his hopes of Republic nomination. Just when Mitt Romney defeats Barack Obama in the first debate, his infamous "47%" video leaks to the public and isolated him from a number of potential voters. Moreover, it shows a man painfully at odds with his public image. "They think I'm a Mormon flipper." Mitt says to his family. Surely, an over-simplified appraisal of a person if there ever was one. Who knew Mitt Romney's favorite movie was "O Brother Where Art Thou" or that he was a fan of David Sedaris, or that he really loves to snack on peanuts. There is a scene in the film where Ann Romney messes up her husband perfectly coiffed hair after a speech. This is essentially the equivalent of what filmmaker Greg Whiteley does to Mitt as well. We cannot help but like him all the more for it. Again, the irony is that this is too little, and too late.

Skorpyos Having just finished watching this home-video of Mitt and his family, it reminded me of the reason why he lost so dismally to President Obama. Throughout the home-video, you see the private Mitt Rmoney as he goes through the emotions of two lost presidential campaign trails surround by his family and seemingly few campaign personnel. Mitt is seen relying on amateur advise from his sons and dealing with his mute wife Ann, who succeeded at looking like a Stepford wife in every scene she appeared.The main dynamic displayed in the home-video is the cultish culture that is at the epicenter of the Rmoney family interaction. From praying in "thee" and "thy" format to strange behaviors in several situations, i.e. laughing hysterically at jokes that are not funny, laughing hysterically as one of his sons is slapped in the face by a woman, and conducting "self-deprecating" jokes that involves how rich he is.Overall, we got a first-hand view of the Rmoney cult, and we were also reasserted of the complete lack of charisma that Mitt possesses. Even in a family environment, Mitt never failed to look as if he was talking to his family with little love and affection, in an almost business manner. Another major point of appreciation to behold in this home-video is the complete and utter absence of an iota of humility in the entire Rmoney family. This attribute (or rather, complete lack thereof) could be most majestically observed when Mitt loses to President Obama at debates and also during the election itself, but the Rmoney clan could not bear the thought of him losing to the "community organizer". After all, they fear that the world will come to an end when the black man leads a nation of "takers". Tears rolled down their cheeks as their brilliant and perfect patriarch lost time and time again to a black man that never ran a company and made billions, but instead worried about providing quality health care to 48 million needy Americans . What a world!