2018 · comedy · drama · biography
Vice
Directed by Adam McKay2h 12m2018
George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive résumé includes stints as White House chief of staff, House Minority Whip and Defense Secretary. When Bush wins by a narrow margin, Cheney begins to use his newfound power to help reshape the country and the world.
Our read: Vice (2018) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded comedy · drama · biography entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- twisty
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“You want a savage, stylistic political biopic about power with zero bipartisan comfort.”
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