Vice (2018)
Christian Bale gives a Golden Globe-winning performance as Dick Cheney in Oscar-winning The Big Short filmmaker Adam McKay's star-studded biopic. McKay tells the epic story of how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became one of the most powerful men in the world as Vice President to George W. Bush, reshaping the U.S. and the rest of the world with his politics.
- Director:
- Adam McKay ('The Big Short', 'Step Brothers ', 'The Other Guys')
- Writer:
- Adam McKay
- Cast:
- Christian BaleAmy AdamsSteve CarellSam RockwellJesse PlemonsAlison PillLily RabeTyler PerryJustin KirkLisaGay Hamilton
Reviews & comments
Flicks, Luke Buckmaster
flicksRecently, while fossicking around online for an interview with director Adam McKay about his new Dick Cheney biopic Vice, my jaw literally dropped when I stumbled upon a tete-a-tete between two people in furious agreement. It wasn’t the fact that these feisty fellows disliked McKay's (inevitably controversial) film that took me by surprise. It was that they managed to misread it so terribly they somehow saw it as a “sympathetic portrait of Cheney” that not only presents him as a “fairly likable shlub” but in fact “lionizes him.” Sympathetic? Likeable? Lionizes? Really?
Beware the Quiet Man
The best political satire on film for a wee while - so many laughs abound and also just interesting insight into topics such as unitary executive theory, familial relationships of political figures and exploration into the question "what do we believe?". Fascinating and magnetic till the end, there are times when key events in the movie (Dick Cheney making...
Variety
press"Vice..." though it pretends to reveal how power works, is ultimately content to remain on the outside, sticking its finger in the eye of power.
Vanity Fair
pressVice gives little reason for us to laugh-or to do much of anything else but roll our eyes.
The New York Times
pressThe pace is jaunty, the scenes crackle with gleeful, giddy incredulity, and the dry business of statecraft attains the velocity of farce.
The Guardian
pressBale brilliantly captures the former vice-president's bland magnificence in Adam McKay's entertainingly nihilist biopic.
Stuff
pressIn an awards season crammed with clear contenders, it is one to watch out for, and a perversely, bleakly entertaining look at an American tragedy we still live with today.
New Zealand Herald
pressThe story is one-sided and opinionated - to say the least - but McKay keeps us interested with quirky storytelling techniques such as a fake ending and a sudden twist surrounding the narrator.
Hollywood Reporter
pressThrough wit, surprise and an irrepressible ballsiness comes a scorching humour that neither curdles nor becomes exhausted.
Empire Magazine
pressAn acting masterclass that neither pulls its punches nor sacrifices detail to pander to a mass audience, this is smart filmmaking from a director who gets better with every film - and a near career-best from Bale, which is saying something.
Flicks, Luke Buckmaster
flicksRecently, while fossicking around online for an interview with director Adam McKay about his new Dick Cheney biopic Vice, my jaw literally dropped when I stumbled upon a tete-a-tete between two people in furious agreement. It wasn’t the fact that these feisty fellows disliked McKay's (inevitably controversial) film that took me by surprise. It was that they managed to misread it so terribly they somehow saw it as a “sympathetic portrait of Cheney” that not only presents him as a “fairly likable shlub” but in fact “lionizes him.” Sympathetic? Likeable? Lionizes? Really?
Variety
press"Vice..." though it pretends to reveal how power works, is ultimately content to remain on the outside, sticking its finger in the eye of power.
Vanity Fair
pressVice gives little reason for us to laugh-or to do much of anything else but roll our eyes.
The New York Times
pressThe pace is jaunty, the scenes crackle with gleeful, giddy incredulity, and the dry business of statecraft attains the velocity of farce.
The Guardian
pressBale brilliantly captures the former vice-president's bland magnificence in Adam McKay's entertainingly nihilist biopic.
Stuff
pressIn an awards season crammed with clear contenders, it is one to watch out for, and a perversely, bleakly entertaining look at an American tragedy we still live with today.
New Zealand Herald
pressThe story is one-sided and opinionated - to say the least - but McKay keeps us interested with quirky storytelling techniques such as a fake ending and a sudden twist surrounding the narrator.
Hollywood Reporter
pressThrough wit, surprise and an irrepressible ballsiness comes a scorching humour that neither curdles nor becomes exhausted.
Empire Magazine
pressAn acting masterclass that neither pulls its punches nor sacrifices detail to pander to a mass audience, this is smart filmmaking from a director who gets better with every film - and a near career-best from Bale, which is saying something.
Beware the Quiet Man
The best political satire on film for a wee while - so many laughs abound and also just interesting insight into topics such as unitary executive theory, familial relationships of political figures and exploration into the question "what do we believe?". Fascinating and magnetic till the end, there are times when key events in the movie (Dick Cheney...
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