Sublime

Smith was not only a politician; he was a Tammany politician. In the simple Tammany code, the first commandment was Loyalty. Smith’s loyalty to his appointees was legendary. Once he gave a man a job, he was fond of saying, he never interfered with him unless he proved himself incapable of handling it.

–PAUL BARNES, COMMERCIAL TYPE

Darabont makes all of these men so unbearably evil that we will not rest until we see our hero defeat them.