Review of W. (2008) by Jun C — 17 Jul 2009
Eh.... okay, so it was good for what it was, but what it was was a film that was made before it should have been. Unlike The Deer Hunter (which focused on zeitgeisty themes instead of specific factual events and was thus completely appropriate to make so shortly after Vietnam), this film completely jumped the gun.
There is obviously still so much we don't know about the Dubya Whitehouse, about Dubya himself, and a lot of stuff will continue to come out. This film aimed to be a biopic trying to explain the man and a period in our history, but because it was biographical and not zeitgeisty in focus, it was completely presumptuous to make so soon.
Stone should have waited to make it later or not made it at all and let someone else do the job right when enough time had passed to make this an endeavor that would actually add insight. It was just hasty.
This review of W. (2008) was written by Jun C on 17 Jul 2009.
W. has generally received mixed reviews.
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