Review of Vice (2018) by Movieseeer — 30 Jan 2019

VICE DONE.

Christmas was less than it’s parts with Hollywood tripping, studio execs must have been on Coke or Crack to come up with this holiday lineup. Mary Poppins? Another Sherlock Holmes comedy? Psyche drama Welcome To Marwen (a disaster). Auto-Stupid-Bots this time the Bumble Bee as a VW Bug (even a 3 year old would Vomit!) Mortal Engines the newest foolery from the ‘Peter Jackson’ crew of idiots (everyone hated it!) from Jackson the most overrated man in Hollywood. So Vice about Dick Cheney on Christmas Day gives you an idea of how creatively inept Hollywood studios have become lately.

Be that as it may Vice is at first, at least, fairly interesting stuff as Christian Bale and his cast of Hollywood Democrats, there are not Republican movie stars, attempt to portray Cheney as the real threat behind the Presidency. Sad to say though that ultimately it’s the same old show we’ve seen too many times. Iraq gets the last half an hour and it’s dull, dull, dull stuff. Everything we’ve all already seen, 11 years ago, not like Hitler was there! After we lost our so called Towers I suppose we needed to kill 600,000 Islamic fighters to even up the score, is what it looks like. We ‘lost’ 4,000 soldiers, so it doesn’t really feel like a war. Imagine if it were China or the USSR, so it was the usual ‘safe’ response from our Administration back then. Vice President Cheney is not all that visible in the film, Bale plays him fairly I’d say, probably hoping to show the quiet ‘villainy’ of Dick, which Bale recently compared (on the Golden Globes) to Satan and such, it’s all funny stuff from our famous movie star stuffed shirts, who these days endlessly look for another Democrat to return the nation to its usual quiet death slumber. Cheney actually comes off as rather humanitarian as his ‘gay’ daughter Mary is not thrown out but embraced by the Cheney family.

5.5 Out Of 10.

Way too long. Way too. The performers are very good but the meat of the matter is lacking in so many directions.