Review of Vice (2018) by Brent_Marchant — 25 Dec 2018

Director Adam McKay's latest is a decent film, though, admittedly, not as good as I was hoping it would be (and definitely not on par with his previous work, "The Big Short"). This biopic about former "president" Dick Cheney features excellent performances by Christian Bale, Steve Carell and Sam Rockwell, though the overall production tries to do too much and gets a little too bogged down in the minutiae of American politics, causing some sequences to become a little snoozy.

Also, McKay's attempts at incorporating asides of an analogous nature -- clever though they may be -- don't work quite as well as they did in his predecessor work. And then there's the humor, which only lands about 50% of the time, another disappointment.

Still, this picture is nevertheless better than a lot of the other commercial releases out there; it's just unfortunate that it doesn't quite come up to the standards set by the filmmakers earlier offering.