Swing Vote

Release Year: 2008
Review: 'Swing Vote' tries to parody the election process and the value of a politician's word by pinning the results of the election on the vote of one everyday American. Unfortunately what could have been an interesting plot with an endless supply of political humor is stifled by thin characters, safe jokes and a very generic feel. Kevin Costner's character, the average, blue collar worker is nothing but a low life who I can't imagine much of America would identify with, or embrace as they did in the film. Just as bad, is the Costner's daughter, who is supposed to balance out her simple father by being the voice of reason, but just comes off as annoying. Nothing is really said about politics and there wasn't that many laughs. It felt like this was a comedy just going through the motions.
Rating: 2/5