Review of Vice (2018) by Patrick P — 27 Dec 2018

I was born in 1998 so by default I know next to nothing about Dick Cheney and that Bush administration, so I was excited to see this film as I thought that I was going to learn about this time period. After seeing this film, I can now say that I still know nothing.

The only thing this film does is make it seem that Dick Cheney is directly responsible for all the problems that have plagued the United States for the past 20 years, like the creation of ISIS. This film takes us deep into the thoughts and private conversations of Dick Cheney and paints him, and any right leaning person or organization, as either evil or power crazed and after very little research done by myself I have been able to find that many of these scenes were untrue as people who were apart of these events have spoken up about the inaccuracies of this movie.

As I am looking at the past works of Adam McKay, I see mostly comedies which is no surprise to me as evident by his comical and completely disrespectful portrayal of George W. Bush, a Yale educated man, as an unintelligent man who is thought down upon by even his father.

The only redeeming quality of this film was in the acting which I will say was superb, especially from Christian Bale. The thing that worries me the most about this film is that my generation will be so naive as to take all the ideas that this film tries to broadcast as factual and be brainwashed into having this skewed perception of Dick Cheney and the George W.

Bush administration, which I know was far from perfect but was not the epitome of almost pure evil as this film leads one to believe.