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Head of State (2003)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:7
Rotten:18
Average Rating:4.9/10
Consensus: Head of State squanders its potentially ripe premise with watered-down satire and formulaic gags.
Theatrical Release:Mar 28, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $37,788,228
Synopsis: Celebrated comedian-writer-actor-talk show host Chris Rock can now add film director to his resume. Cowritten by Rock and Ali LeRoi, HEAD OF STATE follows an unassuming Washington D.C. alderman,... [More]
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04/22/03
Top CriticA missed opportunity.
04/10/03
Top CriticIt's pretty much a toothless dog.
04/01/03
Top Critic... I liked this premise in movies like Dave, or the Eddie Murphy movie The Distinguished Gentleman, where the unknown or the underdog becomes the candidate or even the president, but this is so poorly done.
03/31/03
Top CriticAs a TV sitcom pilot, Head of State might have potential, but, on a multiplex screen, the execution (if not the premise) is thin.
03/29/03
Top CriticNot the sharpest political humor I've ever heard, but it gets my vote for the stupidest fun I've had in a long time.
03/28/03
Top CriticThough the comedy falls short of a debacle -- which is what such egocentric projects tend to be -- it isn't as sharp, fast or funny as Rock's stand-up routines.
03/28/03
Top CriticIt's fast and funny and easily the smartest thing Rock has done in a long while.
03/28/03
Top CriticA pleasing and occasionally very funny movie that maintains a mild but consistent hold on its audience.
03/28/03
Top Critic[Rock] and Bernie Mac ... provide a furious combination of stylistically different but equally effective jabs at the status quo.
03/28/03
Top CriticIt hits easy targets with broad swipes, and its simple message is the same as Disney kiddie fare: Be yourself.
03/28/03
Top CriticAscends to caustic comic outrage every so often and is dopily amusing the rest of the time.
03/28/03
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03/28/03
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03/28/03
Top CriticBased on Rock's awkward performances, it's anybody's guess why DreamWorks thought the comic was remotely ready to step behind the camera.
03/28/03
Top CriticNow safe is commendable in a car or a household appliance, but it doesn't measure up in a comedy. Safe just isn't funny.
03/28/03
Top CriticIt's difficult not to be dismayed by the script's predictable jokes and cliched thinking.
03/28/03
Top CriticWhat it does wrong is hard to miss, but what it does right is hard to find: it makes an angry and fairly timely comic attack on an electoral system where candidates don't say what they really think but simply repeat safe centrist banalities.
03/28/03
Top CriticA political comedy that refuses to address a single real political topic.
03/27/03
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