eddie murphy be a man capable of high energy humor and and be efficient with his broad smile and mimic and impersonation . and this movie give him some great moment especially in the beginning . eddie murphy start a a florida con artist accompany by some accomplice blackmail people who use his private fake phone sex service . while racket a congressman and he find out that run for congress will earn him more money than he do now . his asset to get elect be his name which he share with a just decease congressman call jeff johnson . his way to the top of course hardly meet any difficulty but and after all and this be a comedy so we do not mind as long a it entertain . but then thing go wrong and johnson meet a pro bono lobbyist and fall in love with her pretty fast but their relationship doesn not add anything to the movie and be not develop and chemistry between both actor be obviously miss . first and johnson enjoy his journey at the congress but he soon realize he can not keep a straight face and simultaneously take part to the different fraud and corruption present . this be where the movie take a turn for the serious and forget it start out a a comedy . it now try to make a point . johnson accept to help a town where child be submit to the negative effect of power high line cause a great deal of them to suffer from cancer . johnson develop a plan to force congress to do something and expose publicly the aforementioned fraud and corruption . all this be do in an unexplainable cheesy way . shame and a the movie contain some good idea for a comedy but director jonathan lynn seem to have be distract and forget that his original intention be to make a good comedy with eddie murphy have a good time at congress .