Vice (2018)
Genre: Biography / Comedy
Duration: 132 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Adam McKay
Stars: Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Steve Carell
IMDb score:
7,2 (175.414)
Releasedate: 25 December 2018
Vice plot
"The untold true story that changed the course of history."
'Vice' follows the true story of Dick Cheney, one of the most important vice presidents in the history of the United States. As vice president under George Bush, he was notorious for his controversial views. Dick was a supporter of the 'War on Terror' and the Iraq War.
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Actors and actresses
Dick Cheney
Lynne Cheney
Donald Rumsfeld
George W. Bush
Mary Cheney
Paul Wolfowitz
Scooter Libby
Condoleezza Rice
Kurt
Gerald Ford
Reviews & comments
yeyo
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- 6366 messages
- 4666 votes
Does this have to pass for a prestige film these days? blush Then the millennials have officially taken over Hollywood! Such infantile direction, bit à I, Tonya, with freezeframes, characters that appeal to you, letters on the screen and those kinds of fantasies. The makers are madly in love with their own fun, for example, the film degenerates several times into sketches of dubious quality: characters who suddenly chant Shakespeare, Cheney and co who describe their realpolitik at the restaurant as gastronomy ("weapons of mass destruction on a bed of lies and delusions of the people"), the inevitable fake premature credits and 'censored' characters with blurred faces (I would like to draw the reader's attention to the fact that the last two 'figures of speech' were also used in Paster by Adil and Arbi and Billal Falah, with that kind of level so we are dealing with 
). All told by a liberal wimp who turns out to be dead, just as unpleasant as the find in Sunset Boulevard, but also unoriginal. And he is suddenly run over by a car, hahaha, just like Terrentino, man!. Like in I, Tonya, everything happens under a cover of empathy, with agitprop images of dead children and such, but actually the conclusion is clear. The makers will not care what the US is doing on a geopolitical level, as long as they can wave their finger as enlightened Comedy Central despots and gloat about the 'stupidity' of the American electorate, deplorables who go to Fast and the Furious look and stuff like that.
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Chainsaw
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- 8845 messages
- 3690 votes
Vice, aka Michael Moore documentary, made by a YouTuber. Because that's what this film by director Adam McKay looks like, with all kinds of (often remarkably ugly) freeze frames, a voice-over, jokes, visual tricks and texts throughout the image. I think they were mostly meant to be funny, even though I didn't have to smile for a moment. It seems like McKay is doing everything he can to make this not feel like a run-of-the-mill biography, so in addition to joking, he's mixing up the structure, pushing in some real (or random) images here and there, and coming up with a ton of symbolic scenes. But he doesn't get the right tone; sometimes it's all over the top - and the voice-over explains it nicely - and other times it remains vague, which he probably calls artistic. Although I'm tired of the standard formula of biography films, I still think this story would have come into its own better than this craft.
The film feels like a mixed bag with not a single scene that really stands out. I just got out of the cinema, but I'm already struggling to remember the movie at all. The film mainly seems to be an excuse for another metamorphosis of Christian Bale, who wants to become fat or thin again. He's a good copy of Cheney, but I wouldn't call it a great role. More of an SNL skit with more budget, but also a lot less funny. Carell can also be an okay actor, but here I didn't see Donald Rumsfeld, but I saw Carell. Rockwell stands out in that regard; his George W. Bush is at least a lot better than Brolin in that other biopic. Adams is, as is often the case, also fine, the rest of the cast is not really interesting. I still don't understand the cameos of a Naomi Watts and Alfred Molina, but there's more I don't understand about Vice. Especially why this mediocre film is so highly regarded.
2 stars.
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JJ_D
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- 3831 messages
- 1358 votes
A feat of Hollywood anarchy, this 'Vice'. Through the caricature Adam McKay penetrates in a painfully humorous way to the core of the democratic bankruptcy in the United States. The so-called representatives of the people are mercilessly stripped down as power-hungry white men who – if they have already conquered all the capital in the world – still want to expand their empire of power, if necessary at the expense of their own family. How deep can you sink?
'Vice' is a film of grandeur – the denunciation of Cheney's brutishness, shamelessness and lack of intellect – and yet McKay uses the medium subtly. Just think of the early credits, the witty animated fringes, the Shakespeare fragment and the closing image, in which the spectator may ask himself for a split second whether a heartless man in a strictly anatomical sense does a new heart[/spoiler ] could get.
Although the film easily glances away through the ingenuity in the narrative tenor, 'Vice' painstakingly highlights a staggering piece of recent history. The implications of Cheney as concertmaster in the wings of the White House still stretch sickeningly far today: from a dire climate problem to a global refugee crisis to thousands of civilians and soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder during and after the armed conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. And why? Because Halliburton insisted on drilling some more oil. Disgusting!
But also: wonderful. And yet: revengeful. All in all: extraordinary, to be able to experience such opposing emotions in a print.
3.75*
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