Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Platypuschow I can understand fully why this Kevin Costner movie fell so far under the radar, if the man has any sense he put it there!It's not that it's a bad film, it's just a mediocre one with one of the most offensively ridiculous concepts of all time.So we have Bud, a redneck and all round failure at life (Especially to his daughter). His daughter registers him to vote but then due to a fault with the voting booth he becomes the "Swing" voter. Namely this hick has the single handed decision who becomes the President of the United States.Yep, THAT dumb.Despite a great cast including Costner, Patton, Tucci, Hopper & Grammer this is a foolish movie. Yes it is highly accurate in it's presentation of politics but lacks in the comedy and simply isn't as dramatic as it aims to be.One for hardcore Costner fans only.The Good:Bill MaherSolid castThe Bad:Laughable representation of the Republican partyConcept is ridiculousToo much FOX "News"Things I Learnt From This Movie:The writers were high on weed when writing the script and somewhere along the way someone was high on crack for giving it the green light!

greenejc6 Even though this film is highly unlikely to ever happen in real life, the overall story and plot of this film is really good! It gives you the opportunity to think about all the possible things that would happen if something like this ever did take place in real life! Now lets be realistic.... If ONE man had to decide the winner of the Presidential election, then that means EVERYBODY in America voted except ONE man!........... really?! That's next to impossible! Even though this film is unlikely to ever happen, I would still highly recommend seeing this film. It is well-made and brings up some really solid and controversial questions and topics that every American should think about.Give it a try! You may just fall in love with this film.

Walter_Skinner Even for a movie Swing Vote has a absurd premise. The idea that our democratic voting system can be founded on one man voting is incredibly ludicrous even for the plot line of a movie. Thankfully the movie decides to try and be more then just Kevin Costner (ugh) farting around talking with politicians. The movie instead focuses on his relationship with his daughter. It tries to show the common man's focus on politics. Despite this idea though the movie still doesn't work. The family moments come across as being too cheesy and the movie isn't able to get across it's bizarre premise. Although the movie was better then I expected it to be (which isn't saying much) it's not worth watching. It's a mediocre Costner movie but if you are a fan of his then you've seen worse by him (like The Postman)

aportwentworthcitizen Ernest "Bud" Johnson, a man of the people, a Good Third Party Independent completely uninformed as to what is going on outside of his own little world of the little town of Texico New Mexico, with a socially conscious daughter Molly , caught up in the Political scene by his innocent daughter, registering him to vote on election day. A strange series of coincidences leaves the classic swing state of New Mexico EVENLY Spilt 50 50 in the popular vote with Bud Johnsons vote the deciding vote , the next ten days to two weeks are the classic roller coaster political ride that neither he nor his daughter had expected. as every debate needs a moderator , KennedY Nixon 1960 to the present, so none is better to moderate than a good man of the people who realizes his faults in life and bellies up to the podium to moderate.