In this movie,
Eddie Murphy plays a conman who cons his way through life and eventually finds
his way into Congress. Putting aside the fictitious script and just focusing on
the comedy, I have to say it’s very light. It seemed like the whole idea of
selling a conman as sharp and funny outweighed the goal of making the script
entertaining as a comedy along the way.
Many times, the
comedy just wasn’t strong enough to get a laugh out of you, but the movie
itself was good enough to make you want to see it through to the end. That’s
the good thing about this movie—it plucks at your curiosity. But since the
movie was supposed to be a comedy, it wasn’t well-received as one and didn’t
pull much weight at the box office.
Now, here’s the
gist: Thomas Jefferson Johnson (Eddie Murphy) is a conman, and he pulls off his
schemes with his crew. He’s been at this for years, and it just so happens that
the congressman of his district—a man named Jefferson Johnson (same name as his)—died
in office while having an affair.
Thomas happened to overhear a lot about the money being thrown around in
politics during one of his cons, and he decided to use his name as an
opportunity.
He knew many
people just vote for the name they’re used to without checking who it is, so he
decided to run for Congress as an independent. He won by the technicality of
his name, and now all he wants is to steal and con as much money as he can.
That plan would have been easy if he knew what he was doing and how to get
things done there. Luckily, he ran into other congressmen who’d been doing this
for years. They were willing to take him under their wing as long as he stayed
on their side.
Thomas soon
found out that stealing from the people he’s supposed to serve wasn’t easy, as
he’s faced with a challenge. Will he stand up for his constituents and go after
his new friends, or will he just play ball?
Well, I’m pretty
sure you can guess what he did, but how he did it was what the
movie was about. Even though the ideas were far-fetched and wouldn’t fly in the
real world, it was fun to watch.
Eddie Murphy and his co-stars did a good job keeping me interested in seeing
how things would end, but they failed to make me laugh.
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