Bale brilliantly captures the former vice-president’s bland magnificence in Adam McKay’s entertainingly nihilist biopic (The Guardian).
Ambitious, amusing, but confused portrait of Dick Cheney. The movie works in itself but fails to capture the mastermind behind G.W.Bush’s horror presidency, the violent bloodthirsty politics of the neo-con in the 2000s, the age of pre-emptive wars, of American tortures and of the Patriot Act. If one lived through it as I did, the soft tone of the film is inexcusable for in the end it hides the historical reality.