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Vice (2018)
2018 | Biography | Drama
120 mins
The story of Dick Cheney, the most powerful Vice President in history, and how his policies changed the world as we know it.
| Produced by | Annapurna Pictures |
| Director | Adam McKay |
| Writer | Adam McKay |
| Cast | Amy Adams, Christian Bale and Steve Carell |
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Vice (2018) reviews from people you don't follow
Adam McKay's attempt to reinvent himself as a sort of non-documentarian version of Michael Moore is not so much a hatchet-job as a machete-job - no, make that a chainsaw-job - on the reputation of Dick Cheney, Vice-Prez under Dubya. Christian Bale vanishes under layers of make-up and the Cheney who emerges is a disturbing, totally unprincipled monster, consumed by the acquisition and use of power, responsible for (amongst other things) the invasion of Iraq and the rise of ISIS. Potentially quite heavy stuff going on, then, but McKay takes care to cheer things up (relatively speaking) by including big performances from Sam Rockwell and Steve Carell, along with a few Monty Python ideas repurposed for this movie.
Highly entertaining in a ghastly sort of way, and illuminating with respect to the twisted logic employed by the Bush administration and the role they played in facilitating the current civic nightmare engulfing the USA. Unlikely to appeal to the Republican base, for obvious reasons, but the film inevitably has some jokes to make about its own liberal bias, too, as well as being smart enough to allow Cheney the chance to justify himself, which he does in a disturbingly persuasive way. Still probably a bit too partisan for its own good, but still very impressive and a lot of fun; thought-provoking too.
Highly entertaining in a ghastly sort of way, and illuminating with respect to the twisted logic employed by the Bush administration and the role they played in facilitating the current civic nightmare engulfing the USA. Unlikely to appeal to the Republican base, for obvious reasons, but the film inevitably has some jokes to make about its own liberal bias, too, as well as being smart enough to allow Cheney the chance to justify himself, which he does in a disturbingly persuasive way. Still probably a bit too partisan for its own good, but still very impressive and a lot of fun; thought-provoking too.
I'm not one usually for political films but I thought I would give this movie a try.It was ok,I understood the parts about the Iraq war and the war on terror but some of the other stuff just went right over my head.
Good performances by Steve Carell and Christian Bale who was at times unrecognisable under all the make up and prosthetics.
An ok movie overall.
Good performances by Steve Carell and Christian Bale who was at times unrecognisable under all the make up and prosthetics.
An ok movie overall.
Kevin Phillipson (10072 KP) rated
Jan 28, 2019
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Amy Adams
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When I first that chrIstan bale was gonna play dick Cheney the powerful vice president of all time oh boy as iVeronica just watched the film he gives a good performance and so does the rest of the cast highly recommend the film
Bohan Reviews (215 KP) rated
May 7, 2019
McKay seems to have been hoping that, if he took a chance and threw every idea he had at this film, something would stick, but the final product is maddeningly inconsistent, and most of what we get didn't stick.
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The Marinated Meeple (1853 KP) Jan 31, 2019