Can't Get In The Tank, thanks

Rating: 5/10 (21 October 2007)

A lot of reviewers gave blithely smiley approval to this film with a wink and a nod, and to this day it's a 'three' out of four stars on your cable rating system.
This is a bad movie, and all the special effects in the world can't yank this fragrant turkey up past a five. The clichés are all bad, the characters are stereotypical and unbelievable all the way across the board (except for Adam Baldwin, I really believe he's like that all the time now, having seen that character from him in so many roles) and history will only serve to make this movie more and more incomprehensible to future watchers. Its only hope is in becoming a cult-hit someday, and tragically it's not quite bad enough for that, as the special effects are as great as the script is horrible.
In terms of the larger culture of the Clinton Presidency, this movie also had the odd distinction of being one of a few big films that portrayed a young, vibrant male president with a non-existent or terminally injured first lady that was about to make him a free man. Where did THAT come from?!?!? And is there some underlying lesson we all should infer about Hollywood's attitude toward Hillary as Clinton's First Lady angles now to be the next President?
Ultimately I think this woeful film will really serves as a divining rod for our culture itself; you either believe this movie deserves three out of four stars, or you believe it deserves ZERO stars. There's hardly a middle ground.