An insider’s account of almost six decades of Israeli history, the deadly dull The Prime Ministers is a Zionist booster shot that trades away what benefits in firsthand recollection and access it has through a steady drip of reflexive self-importance. The thirteenth production of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Academy Award-winning Moriah Films banner, director Richard Trank’s documentary isn’t so much a work of historical illumination or even the cinematic equivalent of a series of policy papers as it is a blinkered field trip through the turbulent annals of modern Israel, marked by a misguided attempt to “dramatize” events and/or lend it some measure of marquee, stamp-of-approval star power by way of a series of play-acted voiceovers from Sandra Bullock, Michael Douglas, Leonard Nimoy and Christoph Waltz. For the full, original review, from ShockYa, click here. Following its earlier bow in New York City, The Prime Ministers opens this week in Los Angeles at the Laemmle Royal and Laemmle Town Center, followed by an expansion to other cities and venues. For more information, click here to visit the movie’s website. (Moriah Films, unrated, 115 minutes)
