Mark Kermode, Observer film critic 

A Dangerous Game review – insightful documentary about Donald Trump

Anthony Baxter’s follow-up to the brilliant You’ve Been Trumped exposes the true cost of developing playgrounds for the super-rich, writes Mark Kermode
  
  

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Donald Trump talks to Anthony Baxter. Photograph: PR

Anthony Baxter’s 2011 documentary You’ve Been Trumped brilliantly exposed the ruthlessness with which billionaire Donald Trump rode roughshod over local interests (personal, political, ecological) in order to build a ritzy golf course in Aberdeenshire. This sequel broadens the scope of the original, looking at similar cases in places like Dubrovnik while tracking Trump’s plans for a second course in Scotland, and asking important questions about the environmental and economic impact of leisure resorts for the super-rich. If this follow-up lacks the personal focus of the original, it makes up for it in terms of global context, with talking heads such as Robert F Kennedy Jr proving valuable allies in the search for truth. Most remarkably, Baxter finally gets an audience with Trump, who flannels and filibusters but at least does so to Baxter’s face – which is more than can be said for Alex Salmond, who allowed Trump to bully his constituents in Scotland, but ran scared from a grilling by Baxter.

 

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