YMMV / Death of a President

• Anvilicious: Despite the premise, the film is mostly just an excuse to insult the Bush Administration and criticize the War on Terror, with things like Dick Cheney implementing "Patriot Act 2" or Bush having been killed by an American soldier's father.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: The film was criticised by political figures, including Gretchen Esell of the Texas Republican Party and then-junior Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (even though she personally hadn't seen the film), for being made while Bush was not only alive, but still in office. The Bush administration declined to comment on the film, claiming that it didn't "dignify a response".
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The premise of the film is actually sort of interesting, but those who watch often feel it mostly just uses that premise as a way to make fairly lazy political satire rather than genuinely exploring its ideas and world.

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