During the era of Katie Holmes (prior to Tom Cruise), she's a splendid actor and performer. We love her doing some romantic comedies and this one is a good take.
She's playing the First Daughter, Samantha Mckenzie and she tries to be the "normal" college freshman. How normal can a presidential daughter get? Even with lots of bodyguards, she tries to be, so its like a fish out water kind of scenario if you can imagine.
From time to time she slips out of her security detail so she can have a normal life but nothing escapes the Secret Service. More on that next.
The movie details the "secured" life of a presidential daughter and how it affects her, her friends and lovelife. She eventually falls head over heels for a fellow student only to find out, he's a Secret Service agent too. Talk about the age gap. The guy could have been fired knowing that he falls in love with the one he was bound to protect. He was just re assigned when everything blew up, the president knew.
The story is thin, more of first daughter awkward situations, I wish I could have seen more explosive acting from Michael Keaton, but he was just here as a name drop of sorts. It could have added more to this mediocre storyline.
Nevertheless, its still a watchable film, if you like romantic comedies and not much thinking, with more of eye candy, then First Daughter is for you.
Almost similar though with another rival flick, Chasing Liberty, which we hope we can review someday and make a comparison.
