Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Lee Eisenberg Having gotten his start with the Austin Powers and Meet the Parents movies, Jay Roach turned to politically-themed movies. One example was 2012's "Game Change", about John McCain's hiring of Sarah Palin as his running mate, only to see the Alaska governor make a fool of herself and eventually sink his presidential campaign.The star is Julianne Moore - who won a well deserved Emmy for the role - as Palin, perfectly impersonating the self-proclaimed mama grizzly in all her blithe ignorance and lack of preparation. At one point, she lashes out at the campaign for not letting her be herself; brainless though Palin may have been, she knew that the "real Americans" liked her. McCain (Ed Harris) takes more of a backseat to strategist Steve Schmidt (Woody Harrelson), who slowly but surely realizes that he made a mistake in hiring Palin and not sufficiently vetting her.The movie certainly took me back to 2008. The long campaign, the Russia-Georgia War, Tina Fey's impersonation of Palin on SNL, and finally Barack Obama's victory. With that, millions thought that the US had finally moved beyond its racist past. We never guessed that eight years later we would see the ascension to power of an unhinged demagogue (never mind that Donald Trump didn't win the popular vote). Would that it were 2008 again.Anyway, it's a fine movie. The rest of the cast includes Peter MacNicol (Sophie's Choice), Sarah Paulson (American Horror Story) and Ron Livingston (Office Space). As for Jay Roach, he also directed "Recount" (about the 2000 election), "The Campaign", "Trumbo" and "All the Way" (about Lyndon Johnson's first year in office).

werefox08 A 2012 movie that went straight to television, won 3 Golden Globes----and is worth watching. John McCain (Ed Harris) is well behind in the polls for the 2008 Presidency. There are only a few weeks till voting day, and one of his smartest advisers, Steve Schmidt (Woody Harrelson) declares its time to gamble. They decide on a lady as McCains second in command----and what a lady she turns out to be. It is the Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin (Julianne Moore)...who knows as much about the American political process as I know about the sex life of the Bolivian field mouse ! Her T.V. interviews are now comedy classics---because of her inability to even understand the questions. Many people would have been crushed by her experience of total humiliation. But not the feisty Palin. Since her bizarre (and brief) time in federal Politics she has written a book which was as successful as Bill Clintons and Barack Obamas. Also, she has had her own T.V. chat show, and generally kept her profile high enough to be regarded as a sort of B grade celebrity. The 3 principal actors here are excellent (also Sarah Paulson as Nicole Wallace) This tale has many messages. One is, don't grab for power unless you know what your doing. (Or, unless you are Sarah Palin). An excellent movie.

Rocco Campanaro The television movie begins with a "60 minutes" segment hosted by Anderson Cooper interviewing former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt. Faced with the question every Republican and almost every American had on the tip of their tongues on the night of the election, Schmidt leaves us with suspense as he fails to give a direct answer to: "Why was Sarah Palin really chosen as John McCain's running mate?" The movie then takes us back to the GOP's campaign to just find someone that will "look good" next to McCain as his approval ratings spiral downwards while his opponent rockets. Ultimately, Palin is hired as the solution and the image of the GOP begins to deteriorate further as we follow the hideously unsuccessful and embarrassing McCain-Palin presidential campaign of 2008. As a result of poor vetting and less-than-average knowledge of foreign affairs let alone policy, Palin is somehow on top of the world and her story is really like a bad movie taking fruition. This simple and not very bright superstar from the Alaskan valleys is somehow Queen of the World and wants to "dominate!" The movie shows more importantly the struggles the Republican Party faced in trying to regain the confidence of the American public after the utter horrendousness of the Bush administration as well as the 2007/08 global financial crisis. Above all, the movie shows the rather struggling and defeated McCain portrayed by Ed Harris in a rather respectable and commendable performance of the presidential nominee. Portrayed by acclaimed actress Julianne Moore in her Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG Award-winning performance as the Governor, Moore captures Palin's mannerism and tone of dialogue absolutely perfectly. Her awkward stuttering in interview and her cringe worthy "ya" at the end of every flaming sentence is a genius, not to mention accurate reminder, of the unique and rather poor choice Mrs. Palin really was. Lauded for its high accuracy and believability, the television movie was actually not only a genius reminder but a scary reminder of how, forgive me, 'dumb' and ill-informed this woman really was. I mean, come on, not knowing the difference between the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and thinking the Queen was the head of British government… my word! The leading performance of Woody Harrelson as the struggling adviser to the unintelligent Vice Presidential nominee, Palin, was fantastic and truly capturing the enormous anger and frustration most of America had with this woman for simply not "getting it". Furthermore, I also found the supporting performance of Sarah Paulson as Niccole Wallace (Palin's communications chief) as she fails to find a solution to Palin's ultimate lack of political awareness and Palin's lack of wanting to address her faults.

BruceUllm I knew right then that the Republicans would loose. All Palin had to do was open her mouth...and out came -- nothing. She had no qualifications and hadn't a clue how the world ran. Watching this movie brought back all that Palin stubborn idiocy and I found myself laughing at her. I really felt sorry for Steve (played by Woody Haroldson). His apology to McCain for suggesting Palin was rather touching. Fox News recently realized just how empty-headed Palin is and got rid of her.Some of that delight -- to a lesser degree -- returned when Romney picked Paul Ryan as his running mate. Once again, I knew the Democrats had it in the bag.