when you read the comment on this film and that it smart and funny political comedy base on true event the only true word here be that it a comedy . if youre tell it insider movie about russian politics it not . there probably only 2 % in the movie from what really happen in russia during that election campaign . in reality of the 1996 it be thousand time more interesting to follow the situation and that be a real funky election campaign . well and there be pr adviser from the u work in the yeltsin staff and but their role be just minimal . the whole campaign be totally different from what be show in the movie and it would be much funny show all the president people rid across the country with paper box full of cash and and the celebrity give the show to support yeltsin all over the place at least that would be true . i give it three only because of the respect to jeff goldblum and antony lapagglia and and liev schreiber . and about the machine gun on the street of moscow . i be live in the place that have the high amount of hard crime in russia in the middle of 90 s and never see a man with the gun on the street .