There can be no doubt that Rob Reiner was one of the big Hollywood players. He was not a film director who immediately springs to mind when considering even the present upper echelon of cinema, and never won an Academy Award. However, three of his films have been included in the US National Film Registry, and he was, for many years, a reliable box office draw. Perhaps, however, it is the fact that this reliability disappeared back in the 1990s, to be replaced by the mediocrity and blandness that went hand in glove with his woke politics which has resulted in his relegation to the second tier. He could easily have been another Spielberg, both having the same broad range and diversity of films, but Spielberg generally treads carefully when caching his political didactics in his narratives. Reiner became clumsier with age and his storytelling unengaging, resulting in failure after failure, with only Jewish and political tribalism sparing him from consequence.
