Vice (2018)

Vice (2018)

(2018)

Some voices are more dangerous than others.

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.
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Vice (2018)

Horrendous Editing Bog Down This Well Acted Bio-Pic.

BY arlomclean superstar

Christian Bale is impeccable, but the jarring editing really prevented me from loving this.

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Beware the Quiet Man

BY Newt superstar

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 moves) come and thick and fast - but overall the film makes events that happened quite palatable to the novice.

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  • NZ Herald (Francesca Rudkin)

    The 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. Full Review

  • Empire (UK)

    An 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. Full Review

  • Hollywood Reporter

    Through wit, surprise and an irrepressible ballsiness comes a scorching humour that neither curdles nor becomes exhausted. Full Review

  • New York Times

    The pace is jaunty, the scenes crackle with gleeful, giddy incredulity, and the dry business of statecraft attains the velocity of farce. Full Review

  • The Guardian

    Bale brilliantly captures the former vice-president's bland magnificence in Adam McKay's entertainingly nihilist biopic. Full Review

  • Vanity Fair

    Vice gives little reason for us to laugh-or to do much of anything else but roll our eyes. Full Review

  • Variety (USA)

    "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. Full Review

  • Stuff.co.nz (Graeme Tuckett)

    In 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. Full Review

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  • yvonne not my kind of show, im not into polotics, but looks ok if you are,
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  • justinsight Playful and entertaining telling of how power-hungry politics and self-interest have shaped where the world is today.
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    5 of 6
  • moose bongo Johnson Does it talk about how 9/11 was an inside job? If it doesn't I don't want to see it. Deception about WMDs are nothing compared to that.
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    4 of 6
  • Jim Certainly a Left wing POV. It is effective in the way it portrays profiteering of the arms trade and the public deception re WMDs in Iraq.
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    3 of 6
  • Joci Treats the viewer like an idiot - straight propaganda, one-sided, insultingly simple minded.
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  • RexH Seen it. Loved it.. Solidly constructed biopic-satire. Great cast, with an almost unrecognisable Bale. Worth 4, even 5 stars...
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