An absolute waste of money

A Masterpiece!

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

I just began watching the show commander in chief for the first time on a paid TV network, I watched all 19 episodes. I was not aware of ,the TV series when it aired in 2005-2006 , so six years later I find that this has to be one of the best shows I have ever watched, I cannot believe it was ever ended . I was online trying to find the 2nd season to my disappointment there was none. with all the garbage that they bring back to TV that the viewing public would rather not watch, why not bring back an updated 2012 version of the show. I thought it was excellent. Please bring this show back, I'm sure the viewing public is sick of all these reality shows. This show has grit, Gena Davis is exceptional. The entire cast is exceptional, what can I say Donald Sutherland is great.

The US are over 200 years old, but mentally and intellectually, its like a nation in its teens. Or maybe not even that. Watching the plot and speeches in this series, is like watching a story for children.Freedom, democracy, we are so big, we are so great, god save America, bla bla bla... Thousands of movies and TV shows, always repeating the same mantra. Don't they get tired? Don't they know that only someone really insecure, needs to affirm himself over and over again? The rest of the world watches Commander in Chief, The West Wing, Air Force One, Behind Enemy Lines, etc etc, and thinks "what rubbish! who are these guys trying to fool?". Its impressive, to see so many millions of people, in such delusion.If you want to get rich fast, I suggest you become a psychiatrist and move to the US. You'll make millions.

I new know what some fool might consider a "spoiler", so I always say my review contains one. Make of that what you will.It's hardly likely to elicit any argument if I note that "Commander in Chief was deliberately planted in ground already prepared by "West Wing". Unfortunately it was only a good show, not a great one. It was certainly better than to numerous dreary sitcoms infesting the small screen these days, not to mention the even drearier "reality" (there's a laugh!) shows, and the utterly drearier quiz and contest shows. In the end, however, even the considerable presence of Geena Davis and the brilliant (but challenged) malevolence of Donald Sutherland couldn't save the series. "Commander in Chief" disappeared in mid-1st season, after 18 episodes.The premise of "Commander in Chief" is this: a Republican candidate for President chooses a progressive Independent woman (Mackenzie Allen) to be his Vice President – in order, as one character puts it, "to get the soccer mom vote". Vigorous and athletic, he gets his just desserts in the form of a massive heart attack. On his deathbed he orders her to resign so that the terminally ambitious Speaker of the House, Nathan Templeton. She agrees, but ultimately rejects this course and takes the oath of office. Allen and Templeton are of course Davis and Sutherland, and their struggle for power forms the core of the series. Although every episode or couple of episodes contain one or more subplots, everything relates to the Allen-Templeton feud – and this makes the series fundamentally a soap opera. It's a very high-tone soap opera, but still … .Allen brings into the Residence with her a husband, Rod Calloway, and 3 children: teenage fraternal twins (boy and girl) and a much younger daughter. They are played by decent, but not well-known, actors. She also inherits the former President's cabinet and staff. Among the latter is the Chief of Staff, Jim Gardner, played with effective gravitas by the very talented Harry Lennix.The series proceeds with President Allen dealing doggedly with one crisis after another – international, domestic, administrative, whatever. Templeton (the name of the rat in "Charlotte's Web", by the way) is always lurking, trying to sabotage Allen's efforts, or to take advantage of her difficulties, or at the very least to gloat – and all this despite her repeated demonstrations of kindness and good will toward him (which seem to touch him at the time). In spite of seemingly intractable difficulties, Allen always seems to choose the road less traveled and wins through.And that is the real difficulty of this fine but flawed series. Although the various crises differ in detail, the basic plot outlines are very much the same. She is such an honest, well-meaning goody-goody, so enthused about doing right, that the palm of victory seems virtually to drop in her lap, willy-nilly. We don't expect these astounding successes at the beginning, but after a half-dozen or so episodes we simply expect them.Overall, "Commander in Chief" is an interesting diversion, and it's not half-bad – and, as I said, better than so much else. But alas, it's not a patch on the sophistication, complexity, and sheer brilliance of its inspiration, "West Wing".

This show was really great. It had new related issues that we face today. The show seemed to be a great drama about politics and how people are. The title "Commander in Chief" was a terrific strong title. The show opened eyes and made you think about our own government. Hopefully this show will be picked up and put it back on Television. Many people we talked with, liked the show. The cast was great. Genna Davis, Donald Sutherland, all of the actors did a great job. The plots were well thought out. Some things about the President's Mother, was "where did she come from and what would be her real motive in the show". Was the Mother going to have an affair with Donald Sutherland ? Was his wife ill and would she die ? What would happen if the two got together and Sutherland decided to plot the demise of the President ? The evil and good in this show, which would win ? Would anything ever win in this series? Would the goodness in the President help America and other countries ? Would this show shed light on today's problems and in somehow solving current problems and affairs ? We hope that this show will be reconsidered. It will be missed.