Based on a book about the entire 2008 Presidential election, this movie focuses on a narrow subset of the book, specifically the choice to run Sarah Palin as Vice President and the consequences it had for John McCain's campaign. While I like the first half of this, which shows why McCain felt he had to pick her in order to win and what her strengths and weaknesses as a candidate were, I thought the second half was fairly disgraceful. I would not be surprised to find out that Steven Schmidt was somehow directly involved in the production of this movie, since it portrays himself and McCain as helpless to stop Palin from bringing the campaign into darker territory than they wanted to. Scenes that show McCain looking distressed as crowds call Obama a terrorist while Palin relishes the development strike one as insincere, and really as attempt to whitewash certain individuals. I never thought I could feel sorry for Palin, but this feels like a hatchet job.
Review of Game Change
