Remember the days when a film could portray wilfully endangering a childs life as making you unfit for public office? Ah, such innocent days that really puts the 'fiction' into science fiction. Also a bit strange to see Walken playing a fairly ordinary leading man, not something I'd associate him with and he doesn't really convince me here.

Anyhow, I'm hoping for a remake where:

• President Stillson launches the nukes to fight hurricanes (instead of people)
• the newspaper headline at the end says 'Patriotic child saves President-for-life from dark skinned Terrorist, approval rating soars'
• Walken escapes from the rally and reads the newspaper headline, curses for about 3 minutes solid then kills himself by administering medicinal Stillson brand bleach intravenously
• the epilogue after the credits shows a parallel universe. We see snowflakes falling on a group of emotionally fragile, mental pygmies who don't realise that life doesn't always go your way and are unable to accept the arithmetical certainty that President Stillson was voted out of office. They howl like chimpanzees and throw their own faeces as the screen fades to black. Fin
• lights come up, a trailer then runs for the West Wing and a traumatised audience leave the cinema shaking their heads in bewilderment at what sort of ass-hattery must have gone into making this movie.
  

Seriously though, The West Wing would have been so much more entertaining with Sheen as President Stillson rather than President Bartlett.

5/10