Brightlyme i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Asad Almond A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

contractmowing watched in B&B because it was there. OK, lots of stars cast, surprised by that. OK story line, Ray was OK not great. Gene was better. Glad I didn't pay for it but for free...worth it. Wife slept through it but I stayed with it and could make out a reasonable plot. Highly unrealistic but hey, it's movie time.

Mr Black Well, I enjoyed this film even though it's now 13 years old. Has a real small town feel to it in a good way. The story is okay, if a little silly. The best part for me were the performances. Gene Hackman, of course can do no wrong in my opinion. He's going to be good at what ever he does. I really like Ray Romano. I thought it would be difficult to watch without thinking of Everybody Loves Raymond, but he holds his own. What I really enjoyed was all the additional small town characters that make this film so likable. Especially Reuben.... "I was MY IDEA!" All in all, a fun film. Not sure if I will watch it again, but I'm sure there will be a day when I want to see a light fun film. It will also be good for my future career as a professional movie critic.

classicsoncall My summary quote is a line from the movie and not the way I feel about the picture's message. Just had to get that out of the way. The conclusion you'll quickly come to after realizing the film's premise is that no way could this ever happen for real. An ex-President of the United States running for mayor of any small town USA is just not going to happen. It would be like an actor of say Gene Hackman's stature, an Oscar winner for "The French Connection" and "Unforgiven", showing up in a film like "Welcome to Mooseport". Well, wait a minute.For a Saturday evening family movie night, this one isn't the worst choice you could make. If you're a dedicated network TV series fan, you'll probably catch a lot of your favorites from past shows here, like Ray Romano, Christine Baranski, Maura Tierney, and wonder of Wonder Years, the grown up Fred Savage still looking like the same wholesome kid he was way back when. But that's about as far as you'll get, with Romano doing his Everybody Loves character, and similar offerings from the rest of the players who are pretty much typecast from previous roles. Which is not to say that that's a bad thing if you're a fan of the principals.Had this been made today though, think of the possibilities. You could have had a real life Joe the Plumber against a former President who took the whole hope and change thing just a bit too far. On the one hand you'd have a President who's approval index matched that of Monroe 'Eagle' Cole at the height of his Presidency, and on the other you'd have a candidate who actually knew how to fix things.

raypaquin The idea had possibilities. An ex US President retires to Mooseport, Maine or Vermont, I forget. He gets tangled into running for mayor. With as great an actor as Gene Hackman, this film could have been very funny indeed. But some Hollywood 'artistic' executive (read bean counter) decided to give it to a team of uninspired hacks. If I gave a cinema-appreciation course, I would force my students to sit through this film in order to learn everything that is wrong with Hollywood today. Clichés, political-correctness, the predictability and the suspense of watching mushroom grow, all of the above run amok in this movie, which is *technically* perfect, as are most Hollywood productions. But it suffers from a deadly flaw: it is excruciatingly dull and unremittingly boring, although through no fault of Gene Hackman's or of any of the other main actors, with one exception, Ray Romano, who should abandon any idea of ever acting in any kind of comedy again. Will someone please tell me *who* decides to make such films?