I had read that this movie was a great satire--funny irreverent and cleaver. However, after the movie was about half over, it degenerated into a 2nd rate imitation of an OUR MAN FLYNT movie (which itself is a third-rate Bond knockoff). It seemed like MAYBE they had a good idea for a film but midway through they spliced in some crappy movie. In other words, everything they set in motion to be a good film completely lost its way---almost like it changed writers or directors. The bottom line is that it was NOT cleaver, funny or even remotely interesting from that point on--just bad. Since I saw it more recently, I assume MAYBE some of the glowing reviews I'd read or heard about came from people who saw the movie when it first came out in the 1960s. Perhaps then it seemed like a good movie, but in today's light it just seemed very dumb and pointless.
Review of The President's Analyst
