Jeff Bridges portrays President Jackson Evans who wants to make a legacy for himself by trying to make his new Vice President a woman. The way Evans is written and the way Bridges portrays him is rather simple. The film suggests very little about the President other than being a man who stands by his beliefs, and will quietly get what he wants.
Bridges shows his usual charisma well in the role when ever he is trying to quietly get what he wants. His performance is rather simply just this charisma for most of his performance. He is just fine and fits in with the role well enough. I never find anything he does with his performance to be completely amazing though. He gives his performance a quiet dignity, and control.
Bridges has a big speech at the end which is finely handled by not really amazing to me. Bridges' performance is just nothing special most of the time, and President Evans simply is not really an all too complicated character, and I really do not see anything Bridges does that any competent actor would have done in the role. Bridges' performance is suitable but I never really found it to be very special or even at all memorable.
