Murder at 1600 (1997)

Like Clint's recent episode of geriatric cat-burgling, Absolute Power, Murder At 1600 can only have been made in the wake of those "'what if?'" scenarios flying about Washington following the unexplained suicide in 1993 of the Clinton aide Vince Foster. But could the two movies have far more than their subject matter in common? Conspiracy theory fans will doubtless see the strange tentacles of government in the fact that neither one is much cop - Eastwood's classier project had all the pace of, well, a 67-year-old, while Snipe's newie has more in common with his disturbingly long list of anything-for-a-pay-cheque bullets-and-bangs bollocks (Passenger 57, Boiling Point, Drop Zone, Money Train) than any political thriller proper. All The President's Men this most certainly ain't.

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