An average movie

To be honest, I wasn't really sure what to expect from this flick but since there was a decent cast involved and since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, even though it didn't reach the level of 'Game Change' (I still have to watch 'Recount'), it was actually a decent political comedy coming from Jay Roach. Indeed, first of all, I have always been fascinated by politics and they gave here a rather dark and cynical view on this subject but it was pretty neat that, even though some of it was quite over-the-top, it was still not really far from what actually might happen in real life. The other thing that I enjoyed was even though Will Ferrell was unfortunately playing again one of his typical morons, his opponent was also a huge idiot played by Zach Galifianakis and this combination actually really worked. Unfortunately, the first mistake they made was that, even though these two characters were completely stupid, they apparently actually had a heart of gold. Even Cam Brady was basically a harmless idiot who was completely corrupted by this evil American political system. Well, this approach was rather disappointing and it would have worked better if they had chosen an even bleaker approach by showing that these 2 political candidates were both some major ambitious a**holes. Even worse, as a result, they had to go for a lame happy-ending coming from nowhere which didn't fit the material at all. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, it was still a decent watch and I think it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre. 

6/10