Adapted from his own book What Just Happened? Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line, Art Linson and Barry Levinson’s new film What Just Happened follows two weeks in the life of a fading Hollywood producer (Robert DeNiro) whose personal and professional life are completely unmanageable.
Swing Vote is like that one annoying friend who always needs rides to the airport or wants to borrow money. It doesn’t know when to stop asking for favors from the audience, requiring you to suspend your disbelief for two exhaustively long hours and try to believe that an American presidential election could be decided by one vote. Oooookay. The film is all glossy Americana, all the time, even trying to give a trailer park the Michael Bay treatment, making it look sexy, golden and wind blown.