Imagine the reaction if anything like this had been made in Russia or any other country the U.S. doesn't like, portraying their president as an invincible Ubermensch. Putin would have been a far more plausible action hero than any of the physical wrecks we've had as president, but in one scene we see the White House staff gush that the president (Harrison Ford) is a Medal of Honor recipient and was in Vietnam.
I might have liked this thing if it had been about a Nixon-like president---a guy about sixty who nobody likes, paranoid and self-pitying, a former Navy file clerk with something to prove; someone who gave up golf because it required too much coordination, who recorded everything said in the Oval Office because he couldn't be taught how to pause a tape recorder---who has to overcome or at least work around his deficiencies to physically triumph when the presidential jet is hijacked. It would have had more of a character arc.
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